Why does man age the universe

With the question of when, after all, the universe was created, of course, it would be best to address its Creator. But He, describing in the Biblical book "Being" the process of creation, kept silent about what its age is, giving the newborn humanity the opportunity to break it over it. Since then, a person, as long as he remembers himself, thinks so much about this question. Starting with King David, who exclaimed somehow: "Heaven preaches the glory of God!" - and ending Modern scientific achievements in the field of the study of the cosmos. That is at least three thousand years. Inventing at the same time more and more new methods, allowing to specify the age of the universe by all available means for the era.

In general, we must not forget that the Cosmos is not only a physical or material space. Thinking about the age of the universe, and, consequently, about the causes and consequences of the origin of life, one can not help thinking about where and why life began. And so the Universe is also a deeply philosophical concept. Hence the debate about its beginning. Today, many scientists agree that the beginning of everything was put the so-called Big Bang - the cosmological model, commonly accepted in modern science to describe the transition of the universe from a singular (infinitely dense and very hot) state to an ongoing expansion of it to this day. As a consequence of this expansion, the cosmos is getting bigger and colder. These observations form the basis of the so-called Hubble law (named after the American scientist), which is believed to make it possible to calculate the age of the universe with the greatest accuracy.

In May 2009, the space probe "Plank" was launched, whose mission was to probe the world space for the discovery and investigation of the so-called relic radiation - the very radiation that arose as a result of the Big Bang and reached us, freely spreading in space. Thanks to this, in March of this year, the expected sensation occurred: the age of the universe was once again slightly adjusted - by about 80 million years in the direction of its aging.

"Plank" confirms much of what was known to scientists allegedly. Thus, for example, the theory was confirmed that the Universe has a relatively Simple structure, that it is flat and continues to expand from the center. Thanks to this space observatory, located today at a distance of more than 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, already compiled maps of the relic radiation have been compiled, which make it possible to explain many of the hitherto unexplained. Thanks to these maps, for example, scientists discovered a zone of clots of cold gas, which is supposed to be the cradle of future stars. Also, according to these calculations, the approximate age of the universe is 13.7 ± 0.13 billion years. And in the center of the universe astrophysicists found a zone with unexplained radiation. There is an assumption that further study of this phenomenon will reveal the mystery of dark matter, which, it is believed today, forms the basis of the Universe.

David once admired the starry sky, three millennia later another biblical character claimed that the ways of God can not be traced. Can we ever know exactly what the history of the universe is and what role does the person play in this story?