The universe?

Question

you know all those planets out there like venus mars pluto saturn etc why are they out there?

Answer 1

I'm glad you asked,the answer is quite interesting this answer is courtesy of Brain pop.

About more than 10 Billion years ago a black empty space of nothing for at least more than 10 lightmiles stretching away in any direction,gave out an explosion which caused little pockets
of gas to form in all places later on,little clumps of gas formed in these large clumps also little clumps (which became nebulas later) stretched all over the place. This became the big bang theory and the Universe was born. About 25 million years later these large clumps became galaxies and stars formed. About 6 light years away our Milky way galaxy was forming. About 4 1/2 Billion years later at the tail of the galaxy a huge cloud was forming than at the center pieces of rock came together by the pull of gravity. The strongest pull was in the center 9 other pulls were in the cloud and the cloud started to spin. At the center fusion reactions were forming and the gint rock ignited, forming the sun. Later on rocks formed at the center of a strong magnetic pole forming a spherical shapes,forming the terrestrial planets. It is questioned that Mercury and venus were in different possitions before their present positions it is said by a major asteriod crash shifted venus and mercury's positions . Earth was at first a red volcanic wasteland,but hot geisers formed and water formed.Later land formed.Beyond the Asteriod field, balls of gas formed forming the gas giants. Saturn's beutiful rings are still the phenomimnum of the solar system,but how did they form? It is said to be formed by a asteriod crash causing little pieces of rock lock onto saturn's gravity or an impact left from saturn's formation. The universe is still growing till this minute.

Answer 2

Your question is one that you have to deal with at a philosophical and scientific level. And the question contains some invisible assumptions. One assumption is that there is a purpose to their being there. Science does not recognize a purpose or reason for their being there other than how they are formed and what is the process by which they are formed. There is no designer putting them there.

If there were a designer putting the planets out there, then it would be possible to form a testable hypothesis and test it and prove that assumption one way or another. But no testable hypothesis is possible about why the planets are "designed" to be where they are. At least no honest hypothesis.

Neither does philopophy recognize an answer that might give you a warm fuzzy feeling. Philosophy now recognizes that you can construct questions and statements that follow all the rules of grammar but still are meaningless or nonsense. Like, "did the king of France shave this morning?" or "I can ask God about curing pimples." Your question is nonsense but it does appear to ignorant people that since it follows the grammar laws that it must mean something. It doesn't.

On top of that "Why?" questions tend to have to be broken down into other questions as they are often really several questions pretending to be one question. Again it is the assumptions that are built into our language that most people are not aware of or ignore.

The planets are there because they are there. Things didn't work out some other way.

Answer 3

Dude, this is a philosophy question.

Define the universe? Is that what you're after? Well, how about this: The totality of all measurable and perceivable reality within the parameters of the current state of all known physical constants...subject to change without notice. (Note: I am ignoring the fact that scientists believe we really live in a "multiverse" the levels of which are separated by the number of spatial dimensions you allow yourself to examine. For us, it's 3. In the quantum world, it may be around 10. that's why we call ours a "uni"-verse, as in "uni" means "one").

As for "why"? Well...who the hell knows? But it's a lot more fun with all of that here to mess with, than if it weren't.

Answer 4

Notice how the moon has a smaller mass than the Earth and revolves around the Earth through its relationship with the Earth? Each planet in the solar system has different masses and gravitational pulls in relation to each other, and together influences each other's orbit (just like a satellight uses Earth's gravity to slingshot into a deeper orbit).

Answer 5

As matter condenses in the universe, some is it forms large enough masses that the internal gravity starts a nuclear fusion reaction and a star is formed.
However some of the matter condenses into smaller bodies and is pulled into orbit around the larger star, ie our Sun, and a planet is formed.

Answer 6

We need them because otherwise God couldn't have created us without them. My understanding is he started with an incredibly large mass of water which started to collapse under its own gravitational pull. Rather than create black holes, it created what are called white holes, meaning it created stars and planets and galaxies.

Answer 7

It's the question? They are there because we humans need to have a purpose in life. So, the architect is amusing us.

Answer 8

Why not? There's a ton of crap like that floating around in space, so it might as well be something useful.

Answer 9

This is a question for Philosphers not Scientists...

Answer 10

Because there's no room for them in here