How do you think the solar system was formed?

Question

I don"t believe any gods were responsible but when you think about it it"s so precise. The way the planets are in perfect synchronisation.

It seems too much of a coincidence that it was a big bang and everything fell in place as it is.

Answer 1

The Nebular Hypothesis explains what you call "synchronization." You can find a good explanation of it in any text book. Here's a short explanation I found on the web:

Answer 2

How do you think the solar system was formed?
I don"t believe any gods were responsible but when you think about it it"s so precise. The way the planets are in perfect synchronisation.

It seems too much of a coincidence that it was a big bang and everything fell in place as it is.



Then I guess that means that there is a God. Want to know about Him? Read the bible.

Answer 3

There is an enormous amount of information on the formation of planetary systems---it's a whole sub-field of astronomy, and there are a library of books on the subject.

Star and planet formation happens billions of years after the Big Bang, and is not a direct result of the Big Bang that formed the Universe and the galaxies within it.

Here's a brief summary: (1) A dense region forms in one of the thousands of molecular clouds in the galaxy. (2) The cloud contracts under its own gravity. (3) It becomes disklike, and rotating, because the gas approximately conserves angular momentum, but the motions perpendicular to the disk are damped by shocks in colliding gas streams. (4) An outflow forms near the center, perpendicular to the disk. This carries away angular momentum and magnetic field, allowing the disk to contract further. (5) The center of the disk becomes a protostar, which continues to accrete material from the disk and contract. (6) Protoplanets form in the disk by agglomeration of disk material. (7) The protostar contracts to a pre-main-sequence star, and begins to shine brightly, blowing away much of the unagglomerated gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk (which now has many actual planets in it). (8) The planetary system is initially chaotic---the orbits interact, and planets actually collide with each other. (9) After a long period of time (billions of years), the only planets that remain are planets on nearly-circular orbits, spaced out from each other so they don't significantly perturb each other's orbits. This may be what you mean by "perfect synchronization", but in fact it's not so very perfect. The outer Solar System (beyond Jupiter) is still somewhat chaotic, and there is a chance that resonant interactions between the outer planets could send one of them inwards, and disrupt the inner solar system. This happened fairly often in the distant past (billions of years ago), but will happen much less frequently in the future.

I point out, too, that these processes are actually observed to happen in star-forming regions like the Orion Nebula. We can see stars and planets in the process of formation from interstellar gas. Our Milky Way Galaxy forms about one new star per year, on average.

Answer 4

1. They're not. Comets and asteroids crash into planets. In fact, there's concern it could happen to earth, and it would be catastrophic (civilization would likely be destroyed).

2. They got the way they are due to inertia and gravity. The largest objects have more gravity. This means they sweep up other objects in the same orbit, colliding, and eventually becoming planets. Gravity comes into play to make them round (more or less). Inertia keeps the planets in orbit, countering the sun's gravitational pull.

3. It's no coincidence. Planets have been found orbiting other stars. And if none of the above were true, you wouldn't be here to ask this question on this forum. That's called the anthropomorphic principle.

Answer 5

Um...don't wanna bash you, but the solar system is NOT in perfect synchronization...more of a cobbled up piece of mass and gravity, the reason why the planets go around the sun the way they do is because of gravity, so there's your culprit for making the universe? I don't know how the universe was formed, I have my ideas but I'm not going into them here, all you need to do is look up "Big Crunch" at wiki or wherever you go to look stuff up at...you'll find out my idea on how everything started. Hope this helped! ^_^

Answer 6

You need not bring religion and spirituality into it since the nature's laws are quite precise. But who gave the laws? Big bang did not result in formation of planets immediately. Galaxies formed and from the dust stars and planets formed.

Answer 7

Start with a blank sheet of paper.

In very very light grey, mark the middle horizontal and vertical lines. Label the ends -4 and 4, so that you have axes.

Pick a point at random. Write down its (x,y) coordinate. 1000 times, square it in the form x+yi, and then add x+yi to the result. If at any time, sqrt(x^2 + y^2) is greater than 2.5, color the point black and pick a new one, otherwise, just pick a new one.

If you do this, from these simple rules, you will get the mandelbrot set, which is essentially infinitely complex.

Complexity arises from simple rules. Physics is based on fairly simple rules, and complex order arises from those rules.

Answer 8

The planets aren't in perfect synchronisation. Their orbits wobble, they all go at different speeds, have different numbers of moons. One spins the wrong way and is on its side. There's a danger that two might collide. They are spaced unevenly. And there's millions of small rocks all over the place, smashing into things.

Hardly perfect.

Answer 9

Explain what you mean by the "planets are in perfect synchronisation". In sync with what?

They are in various orbits around the sun. Thats about it.

Answer 10

ah, yes it does seem quite perfect. but that certainly does not make it by a god.

since the solar system was created almost perfectly, we have life. if it were not, we would not be here, and would never know.

the real question is this:

if there is really a god out there who created this oh so perfect solar system, then why did this god also create such imperfect humans, who rape, kill, and hurt others? why did this god create poverty, and suffering?

and before christians and muslims say "it was satan!" the answer to that is simple: who created satan?! god, according to christians and muslims!

also, i see many natural distaters, droughts, and global warming happening. looks like god's creation had many faults, huh?

by the way, our solar system is far from perfect. there are many crazy things that happen that people wish could be changed