No, our solar system is approx 4.6 billion years and the universe approx 15 billion years. Our sun is considered a 2nd or 3rd generation star. 1st generation stars created after the big bang were made of light elements, helium and hydrogen. In the process of some of these 1st generation stars burning out and dying, creation of heavier elements (metalic elements) occurred. As a result, 2nd or 3rd generations of stars composition were/are composed of metalic elements, the elements crucial in creating life.
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2007-01-26 00:56:04
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answered by James O only logical answer D 4
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Best information says the solar system is about 5 billion years old, and the universe as a whole is about 12-14 billion years old. So the universe is older than this specific solar system. There are *billions* of solar systems in existence, some older than others; they are being formed and destroyed all the time, so it is most likely that none currently in existence have been there since the beginning.
I'm not sure why you conclude with "Therefore the Sun is not the center of the universe" as though it were somehow a new or profound proposition. Nobody has thought the Sun to be the center of the universe since a time when our understanding of the universe was somewhat more limited - about two centuries ago.
2007-01-25 18:09:36
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answered by dukefenton 7
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The creation of the universe did not happen at the same time as the creation of our solar system. The universe was created over 15billion yrs ago, while our solar system is about 5billion yrs old.
You're right. Our solar system is one of many in the universe, and the sun is not the center of the universe.
2007-01-25 18:10:54
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answered by ? 6
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It's true, as others have said, that because the Moon is moving away from the Earth it is inevitable that at some time it would have the same apparent size as the Sun. However, the Moon is much bigger in comparison to the Earth than any other known moons are to their planet. The largest moons of Jupiter and Saturn are only a small bit bigger than our Moon, but Jupiter and Saturn are vast compared to the Earth. If we had an average moon for the size of our planet, it is likely that it would never have been close enough to appear as big as the Sun in the sky. Comparing the other "rocky" planets, Mercury and Venus don't have any moons, and Mars has two which are tiny - only a few miles across. It is likely that the odds of us having a Moon that even has the possibility of being as big as the Sun in the sky, let alone us being here at just the right period in history to see it, are very low. We will only know for sure when we are able to study planets and moons round other stars so we have a better idea of what is "normal".
2016-05-24 00:57:28
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answered by ? 4
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The various elements are created in the stars by nuclear fusion. Elements up to about iron can be made in this way. The heavier elements need the explosion and compression of a supernova to form. As there are plenty of the heavier elements in our solar system, there must have been a supernova in its history.
The Universe itself came into being about 14billion years ago. One of the stars spawned at that time went supernova and created a spinning disc of gas, dust and rock. These coalesced to form the Sun, the planets, the moons and all the other bodies in the solar system. This hppened about 4.7billion years ago.
2007-01-26 00:35:44
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answered by tentofield 7
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If your mean is about the creation of the material of solar system, I said that most of the matter and energy is created simultaneously with the other part of the world. Except some creation an annihilation of matter (see Relativistic quantum mechanics texts) which happens next of BIG-BANG.
If your mean is the solar system as a mechanical system, the answer is that our solar system is created many many times after BIG-BABG as many star systems which will be created now.
2007-01-25 20:11:00
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answered by siamakkhademi 1
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The universe exploded. The solar system imploded. That qualifies as a difference. The solar system imploded gravitationally out of the diffuse matter that resulted from the explosion of the universe.
2007-01-25 18:09:07
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answered by Anonymous
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It is said that universe has existed because of explosion of a great matter. [the theory is known as Big Bang theory. it took place because of chemical reaction] after the existence of universe the creation of solar system took place
2007-01-26 00:19:30
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answered by rutha s 1
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No the solar system is younger than the Universe. the big bang is 13.7 billions year old whereas the solar system is only 4.6 billions year old
2007-01-25 18:11:21
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answered by maussy 7
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yes and no, being that it all happened at once (the matter) but it took billions and billions of years for the particles to collect into what we know as today's universe., and no the sun is by far not the center, we don't know what the center is, but that would be like saying a grain of sand i pick up in the ocean is the center of the universe.
2007-01-25 18:08:14
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answered by Christopher J 2
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