They believed in many gods and myths which narrate that the world arose from an infinite sea at the first rising of the sun.

Tell the story of a creator god Mbombo (or Bumba) who, alone in a dark and water-covered Earth, felt an intense stomach pain and then vomited the stars, sun, and moon.

There is the narrative that gods sacrificed Purusha, the primal man whose head, feet, eyes, and mind became the sky, earth, sun, and moon respectively.

Claim that a supreme being created the universe, including man and other living organisms.

Proposed in 1948 by Bondi and Gould and by Hoyle.

It maintains that new matter is created as the universe expands thereby maintaining its density.

The currently accepted theory of the origin and evolution of the universe

What is the age of the universe?

The universe expanded from a tiny, dense and hot mass to its present size and much cooler state.

a point with all of space, time, matter and energy.

First second after the big bang

began to rapidly expand in a process known as...

The relative abundance that did not change much until today.

electrons started to bind to ionized protons and nuclei forming neutral atoms in a process called

announced his significant discovery of the “redshift”

This means that the further away a galaxy is from us, the faster it appears to be moving away. This relationship, is known as

If a galaxy is moving towards the earth, its light is shifted to higher frequencies on the color spectrum. The higher frequency shift is called

Observed that spectral lines of starlight made to pass through a prism are shifted toward the red part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

the apparent change in the frequency of a wave that is caused by the apparent motion between the observer and the source of the wave.

An electromagnetic radiation which is a remnant from an early stage of the universe. It supported the theory of Universal expansion.