eCosmology

How did the solar system get created?

I know the scientific understandings of how the solar system was started, by why, and who/what created the solar system? Explain yourself. If you think it was god, who is god? Explain yourself.

Public Comments

1. The Big Bang Theory, the universe was created by a huge bang that they think just happened and out of this bang the universe started to create and get bigger and bigger and we think the universe is still growing.
2. From what I've heard, a solar system is created with the star in a nebula.
3. God created it. And to who is god....... I don't think were meant to be able to understand exactly who god is. He is everything......
4. If you do follow the Big Bang theory, in essence, the universe simply exploded into being. There is, however, that little question of what there was before that. And if the answer is nothing, how did this infinite universe (something) come from nothing? Something or someone should have, in theory, preceeded the Big Bang. But yes. Big Bang. Universe. Galaxies. Solar System. That sort of thing.
5. Ugh. So many answers, so little explanation. I think the current theory is that our solar system started when a star much larger than our sun exploded. I guess much of the mass became our sun. Did you know that every element that exists on Earth is present in the sun? Albeit, in small amounts. Imagine if the sun were much larger, and exploded. All of its contents would be spread out over a large distance. Over time, the matter would clump together, due to gravity, and form planets, asteroids, etc. Or God did it. Or a magic unicorn who craps strawberry ice cream, for that matter. You never know, anything is possible! Staden, it's a good thing you're wearing a helmet. meemeemee...yes, you sure do sound like one.
6. I AM NOT ALLOWED 2 ANSWER THIS QUESTION...... I AM A DUMB GIRL.......2 BAD I THINK I KNOW THAT ANSWER .....BUT BEING A DUMB GIRL AND ALL.....
7. Why was the solar system created you ask...? Because the building blocks for it were present, upon which certain of the laws of physics acted. Why were the building blocks present and why were the laws of physics such and such...? Give it a rest, dude! The person that can answer your metaphysical questions with one tiny bit of certainty does not exist.
8. According to the nebular hypothesis theory, our sun and planets formed from interstellar gas and dust. The original nebula collapsed into a protostar (which became our sun) and a dust disk. Various eddies and instabilities within the disk led to clumps of dust, ices, and gas sticking together forming protoplanets. After a series of collisions, the larger protoplanets absorbed the smaller ones, until we have the ones we have today. However, there is some disagreement as to the exact process of formation (the devil is in the details after all). Newly discovered solar systems have been found to have quite a few 'hot Jupiters' (ie gas giants in close orbits around parent stars). Also, there is disagreement on how gas giants themselves form. However, the basic mechanism, that protoplanetary disks spawn planets, is not in doubt. Similar disks have been found around many young stars in the Orion Nebula, the star Vega, Fomalhaut, and Beta Piscatorum.