it's for a science project....don't ask.
2007-06-12 10:15:31 · 7 answers · asked by love u like a fat kid loves cake 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hubble's law? Redshift in galaxies is proportional to their distance - thus implying the universe expands. A major factor in arriving in today's cosmological models!
Specifically, Hubble's law implies an expanding cosmos, as in the Big Bang theory.
Did that actually impact society? I guess anything that supports the Big Bang theory drives a deeper wedge between followers of modern science and bible oriented creationists.
Beyond this role in the war of the ivory towers, I can't see how it would impact society at large - to John Q Public, it's as meaningless as just about any other law or formula in modern cosmology.
2007-06-12 10:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by The Arkady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hubble constant tells us that the universe is in a state of accelerated expansion.
The universe is a finite entity so an accelerated expansion is not possible.
The farthest galaxies we see don't exist to-day.
The red shift is interpreted as a receding and accelerating galaxy.
If a galaxy is the end stage of an evolving universe,the red shift could be misinterpreted and the red shift would be apparent no matter what side of the galaxy it was viewed from.
The universe is an incident that will one day come to an end.
2007-06-13 05:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it gave scientists one more substantive observation with which to demonstrate that God's plan for the size of the Universe was an ongoing project, and not done in one day.
"After Hubble's discovery was published, Albert Einstein abandoned his work on the cosmological constant (which he had designed to allow for a static solution to his equations). He would later term this work his "greatest blunder" since the belief of a static universe prevented him from predicting the expanding universe. Einstein would make a famous trip to Mount Wilson in 1931 to thank Hubble for providing the observational basis for modern cosmology."
2007-06-12 12:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An expanding universe and its contingency that a look through distance is a look back in time drive another stake into religions' heart. The average git is otherwise wholly unaffected. The average git is unconscious.
What is our place in the universe? Our place in the universe is right here. Anything beyond that is hubris and lies. Woe to the universe if we ever shake the mud off our brogans and do some serious traveling. Watch the movie "Dark Star."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)
"teach it phenomenology"
2007-06-12 10:25:37 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It opened the door to the idea that the universe can be shown scientifically to have had a beginning. Both religious people and atheists saw it as proof of their world view.
We finally could show that the universe was not in a "steady state".
2007-06-12 12:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the people were probably oblivious or too ignorant to understand it. I'm sure it made a few papers and people marveled at it and then went about their normal lives.
2007-06-12 10:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gave us valuable information about the expanding universe, not that a lot of people know what it is all about.
2007-06-16 08:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋