With the question of when the Universe was created, of course, it would be best to turn to its Creator. But He, describing in the biblical book "Genesis" the process of creation, kept silent about what her age was, giving the newborn humanity the opportunity to puzzle over it. Since then, a person, as long as he remembers himself, has been thinking about this issue for so long. Beginning with King David, who once exclaimed: "The heavens proclaim the glory of God!" - and ending with
modern scientific achievements in space exploration. That is at least three thousand years. At the same time, inventing more and more new methods that make it possible to specify the age of the Universe by all means available for the era.
In general, we must not forget that the Cosmos is not only physical or material space. Thinking about the age of the Universe, and, therefore, about the causes and consequences of the emergence of life, one cannot help but think about where and why life began. And therefore the Universe is also a deeply philosophical concept. Hence the debate aboutits beginning. Today, many scientists agree that the so-called Big Bang, a cosmological model generally accepted in modern science to describe the transition of the universe from a singular (infinitely dense and very hot) state to its ongoing expansion, laid the foundation for everything. As a result of this expansion, the Cosmos is getting bigger and cooler. These observations formed the basis of the so-called Hubble law (named after the American scientist), which is believed to allow calculating the age of the Universe with the greatest accuracy.
In May 2009, the Planck space probe was launched, the task of which was to probe the world space in order to detect and study the so-called cosmic microwave background radiation - the very radiation that arose as a result of the Big Bang and reached us, propagating freely in space. Thanks to this, in March of this year, the expected sensation happened: the age of the Universe was once again slightly corrected - by about 80 million years in the direction of its aging.
"Planck" confirms much of what scientists supposedly knew. So, for example, the theory that the Universe has a relatively
simple structure in that it is flat and continues to expand from the center. Thanks to this space observatory, located today at a distance of more than 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, refined maps have already been compiled and are being compiled.relic radiation, allowing to explain much of the hitherto inexplicable. Thanks to these maps, for example, scientists have discovered a zone of cold gas clots, which is supposed to be the cradle of future stars. Also, according to these calculations, the approximate age of the universe is 13.7 ± 0.13 billion years. And in the center of the Universe, astrophysicists have found a zone with radiation that is still inexplicable. There is an assumption that further study of this phenomenon will reveal the secret of dark matter, which, as it is believed today, forms the basis of the Universe.
David once marveled at the starry sky, three millennia later another biblical figure claimed that God's ways could not be traced. Will we ever know exactly what the history of the universe is and what role humans play in this history?
