Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

How We Found the Universe (Science and Faith)

May 13, 2022

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Aristotle's Fifth Elements - Ether

03:10

Shapley vs Curtis - The Spiral Nebulas

02:19

The Fixed Stars Are Far Away From the Earth

01:51

Introduction

2min

Geocentrism - The Origin of the Earth

3min

The Ancient Greek Pythagorean School of Thoughts

2min

Is There a Counter Earth?

3min

Aristotle's Fifth Elements - Ether

3min

Aristotle's Rejection of Action at a Distance

3min

The Ptolemaic Model

5min

Copernicus Model of the Universe

3min

Why Did Tycho Brahi Have a Metal Nose?

2min

10.

Comets and the History of Astronomy

2min

11.

Aristotle's Supernova

2min

12.

The Evolution of the Universe

2min

13.

Galileo and the Telescope

2min

14.

The Milky Way

2min

15.

How to See Parallax Shifts With the Fixed Stars

4min

16.

The Distance to the Fixed Stars

2min

17.

Aristotle's Theory of the Universe

2min

18.

Descartes's Theory of Vortices

2min

19.

The Fixed Stars Are Far Away From the Earth

2min

20.

How to Calculate the Distance to the Star Sirius

2min

21.

Newton's Theory of Gravity

4min

22.

The Milky Way Is a Dense Band of Stars

2min

23.

Jimmy Akins Mysterious World

5min

24.

The Milky Way

2min

25.

The Milky Way Isn't the Only Thing in the Universe

4min

26.

The Great Debate

3min

27.

Shapley vs Curtis - The Spiral Nebulas

2min

28.

Spiral Nebulas - Why Didn't They Carry the Day?

3min

29.

What Is a Variable Star?

5min

30.

Hubbld's Sepiad Formula - The Nebula of Andromeda

2min

31.

Hubble's Letter to Shapley

3min

32.

Jimmy, What Dl We Have for Mysterious Headlines?

3min

33.

The Milky Way

2min

34.

Jimmy Yakin's Mysterious World

2min

How did humanity come to know the world around us, the structure of our planet, our solar system, and the universe. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the mystery of the nature of the universe and the historical figures who found the answers we have today.