There are many assumptions about how the world appeared. Since ancient times, it worried the minds of people. Georges Buffon was among the first to introduce the hypothesis of the emergence of the human world. At the same time, he opened the door for the further development of mankind.
Georges Buffon: The Earth Hypothesis
The scientist was born in France. He was engaged in biology and mathematics. In his book Natural History, he presented his own vision of the origin of the world. Frenchman Georges Buffon made a significant contribution to biology. Brief information from his hypothesis:
- The familiar Solar System was not there before.
- Once there was a collision of a large comet with the Sun. After that, a lot of solar matter was thrown out. There was a kind of explosion.
- These substances were broken into a large number of parts, and planets formed from them.
According to the theory of this person in space there were very hot celestial bodies formed as a result of an explosion. As soon as they cooled, life began to arise on planet Earth. However, this took a very long time.
Hypothesis Details
This man did not put forward a theory of the origin of the Sun or comets. He only wondered how the world of mankind appeared. The essence of Georges Buffon's hypothesis describes this process as a large collision of a comet and the Sun. This man believed that large meteorites did not belong to the solar system. In his opinion, solids are the Sun and comets, but this is not true. Georges Buffon believed that due to the collision of comets, a burning star began to rotate, and its parts formed planets orbiting around it. As a result of this, according to the theory, celestial bodies move in the direction that can be observed now. Thus, Georges Buffon explained the origin of the planets. They all broke away from the sun. However, now mankind knows that this hypothesis is false. Thanks to his theory, he made a significant contribution to the development of science.
How did the satellites appear on the planets?
This outstanding person suggested the appearance of almost all celestial bodies in the universe. Satellites appeared when the planets rotated around their axis very quickly and were in a liquid state. Due to the high speed of rotation, particles separated from celestial bodies and these large stars formed from them.
If you pay attention to many theories after this person, you can see that scientists have long repelled from his hypothesis. Georges Buffon created an idea that has long appeared in other cosmological assumptions about the emergence of the world.
What were his mistakes?
Some people may find the answer obvious. It is easy enough for contemporaries to talk about this, knowing that a burning star is not at all solid. Comets, on the other hand, have a very small mass, which is why it is almost impossible for them to influence the Sun, and even more so to break off several parts from it. According to modern hypotheses, the great body has never been in a molten state. This information crushes the Buffon hypothesis. Moreover, the breakaway parts from the Sun should inevitably return. Also, the movement of the planets after such a huge blow is unrealistic. Because of what, after a short period of time, this assumption was questioned. And Pierre Simon Lapal criticized him at all, because of which the hypothesis was eliminated from the scientific world.
The most relevant hypothesis
In the scientific community, disputes about the origin of the world are still ongoing. However, many scientists believe that the most truthful can be considered the theory of Kant-Laplace. It says that at the very beginning there was only a gas cloud that revolved around the core. These matters attracted each other, and gradually a gas-fog clot formed into a disk. Due to the fact that the gas was uneven, rings appeared. They stratified after a while. After cooling of the clot, planets formed, and the rings turned into satellites. The sun is the only clot that now exists and has not cooled. This theory was called so because of the people who first proposed it. Gradually, scientists are studying space, which allows us to discover more and more new features of the origin of the planets. Experts believe that the hypothesis is still poorly argued, but its contribution to the development of the science of astronomy is very high.