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In physical cosmology, the Planck epoch or Planck era is the earliest period of time in the history of the universe, from zero to approximately 10−43 seconds (Planck time). While there is no proven theory that correctly describes the universe at this period, it is postulated that quantum effects of gravity dominated physical interactions due to the small scale of the universe. During this period, approximately 13.79 billion years ago, gravitation is believed to have been as strong as the other fundamental forces, and all the forces may have been unified. Inconceivably hot and dense, the state of the universe during the Planck epoch was unstable. As it expanded and cooled, the familiar manifestations of the fundamental forces arose through a process known as symmetry breaking.
Modern cosmology now suggests that the Planck epoch may have inaugurated a period of unification, known as the grand unification epoch, and that symmetry breaking then quickly led to the era of cosmic inflation, the Inflationary epoch, during which the universe greatly expanded in scale over a very short period of time.
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model accounts for the fact that the universe expanded from a very high density and high temperature state, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure and Hubble's Law. If the known laws of physics are extrapolated beyond where they are valid, there is a singularity. Modern measurements place this moment at approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. After the initial expansion, the universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity to form stars and galaxies.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS (/plɑːŋk/; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as an originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. However, his name is also known on a broader academic basis, through the renaming in 1948 of the German scientific institution, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which he was twice president), as the Max Planck Society (MPS). The MPS now includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.
Planck came from a traditional, intellectual family. His paternal great-grandfather and grandfather were both theology professors in Göttingen; his father was a law professor in Kiel and Munich.
Planck was born in Kiel, Holstein, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck; of his given names, Marx (a now obsolete variant of Markus or maybe simply an error for Max, which is actually short for Maximilian) was indicated as the primary name. However, by the age of ten he signed with the name Max and used this for the rest of his life.
Nicotiana attenuata is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name coyote tobacco. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Texas and northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a glandular and sparsely hairy annual herb exceeding a meter in maximum height. The leaf blades may be 10 centimeters long, the lower ones oval and the upper narrower in shape, and are borne on petioles. The inflorescence bears several flowers with pinkish or greenish white tubular throats 2 to 3 centimeters long, their bases enclosed in pointed sepals. The flower face has five mostly white lobes. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter long.
When this tobacco is eaten by the larvae of the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) the plant emits green leaf volatiles that attract Geocoris bugs, which are predators of the worm.
This plant was used for a great variety of medicinal purposes by many Native American groups, and was smoked ceremonially by the Hopi, Apache, Navajo, Paiute, and other groups.
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This is a video from Chavis von Bradford on the chronology of the universe, which describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology, the prevailing scientific model of how the universe developed over time from the Planck epoch, using the cosmological time parameter of comoving coordinates. The instant in which the universe is thought to have begun rapidly expanding from a singularity is known as the Big Bang. As of 2013, this expansion is estimated to have begun 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago. It is convenient to divide the evolution of the universe so far into three phases. The Planck epoch is an era in traditional (non-inflationary) big bang cosmology wherein the temperature was so high that the four fundamental forces—electromagnetism, gravitation, weak ...
Although science has provided astounding insights into the origins of the universe, we're still not quite sure what happened in those very first few moments. Link to Electromagnetism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMnsZuEE_m8 Link to Weak Force: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnL_nwmCLpY&list;=PLsNB4peY6C6JDc1HcVKjjYzVB0BYEXexd&index;=3 Link to Strong Force: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv3EMq2Dgq8&list;=PLsNB4peY6C6JDc1HcVKjjYzVB0BYEXexd&index;=1 Link to Gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhG_ArxmwRM&list;=PLsNB4peY6C6JDc1HcVKjjYzVB0BYEXexd&index;=4 Link to Take a Trip to Titan!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfiE5AVM7Zc Link to Has Stephen Hawking Solved a Black Hole Paradox?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lptt20cohrU ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon suppor...
http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Given our knowledge of the fundamental forces of nature, cosmologists speculate about an early phase of the universe on an unimaginable iota of time after the big bang, ten to the minus forty three seconds after the big bang, when the forces of nature were all equal. This is called the Planck era or the Planck epoch after one of the founding figures of quantum mechanics. In this tiny instant of time after the big bang the temperature was ten to the power thirty-two Kelvin. The size of the universe was ten to the minus thirty-five meters, much smaller than a proton. The universe was a seething space time foam where there was no distinction between particles and energy or even between particles and the space they occupy. This represents the limit to our kn...
In physical cosmology, the Planck epoch (or Planck era), named after Max Planck, is the earliest period of time in the history of the universe, from zero to approximately 10^(−43) seconds (Planck time), during which quantum effects of gravity were significant. One could also say that it is the earliest moment in time, as the Planck time is perhaps the shortest possible interval of time, and the Planck epoch lasted only this brief instant.
This minilecture gives a history of the first 100 seconds of the Universe, a time when unfamiliar forces and subatomic particles dominated the Universe. Table of Contents: 00:50 - The Four Fundamental Forces of Nature 03:24 - In the Beginning: The Planck Epoch 05:12 - Grand Unification Epoch 06:02 - Grand Unified Theory of Cutlery 06:36 - The Electroweak Epoch 07:10 - Do you understand the Higgs Boson? 07:36 - Inflation 08:18 - The Inflationary Epoch 10:15 - The Quark Epoch 10:55 - Matter vs. Antimatter 12:02 - Hadron and Lepton Epochs
In physical cosmology, the Planck epoch or Planck era is the earliest period of time in the history of the universe, from zero to approximately 10−43 seconds. It is believed that, due to the extraordinarily small scale of the universe at that time, quantum effects of gravity dominated physical interactions. During this period, approximately 13.79 billion years ago, gravitation is believed to have been as strong as the other fundamental forces, and all the forces may have been unified. Inconceivably hot and dense, the state of the universe during the Planck epoch was unstable. As it expanded and cooled, the familiar manifestations of the fundamental forces arose through a process known as symmetry breaking. Modern cosmology now suggests that the Planck epoch may have inaugurated a period of...
Episode 4 of 5 Check us out on iTunes! http://testtube.com/podcast Please Subscribe! http://testu.be/1FjtHn5 The universe is everything we can see and as far as we can see. For years we've been trying to figure out how it all began, but have we finally figured out how everything came to be? + + + + + + + + Previous Episode: What Is Dark Matter’s Role In The Formation Of Galaxies?: https://youtu.be/vkMlH-6msfQ?list=PLwwOk5fvpuuLUsdHbX81DIAsiBqQrilX_ + + + + + + + + Sources: Brief History Of The Universe: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/BBhistory.html “The Planck time: 10-43 seconds. After this time gravity can be considered to be a classical background in which particles and fields evolve following quantum mechanics." What Is the Big Bang Theory?: http...
Part 1: Studying a plant’s ecological interactions in the genomics era (Part 1): Dr. Baldwin reveal the mechanism by which the native tobacco plant, Nicotiana attenuata, uses floral metabolites to attract and guide its favorite pollinator. Part 2: Nicotina attenuata’s responses to attack from a nicotine-tolerant herbivore: Baldwin outlines the evolutionary responses that the Nicotina attenuata has to fight a nicotine-tolerant herbivore, the moth’s caterpillar. Part 3: Plant’s perspective on seeds, sex, and microbes: Baldwin addresses two different mechanisms by which Nicotiana attenuata can rapidly adapt to the extreme desert environments. https://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/short-biased-history-interdisciplinary-field.html Talk Overview: Although plants cannot move, they have devel...