EXPLAIN THE FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH THE HELP OF IMMANUEL KANT'S GASEOUS HYPOTHESIS?
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, in his treatise entitled, 'The General Natural History and the Theory of the Heaven or the essay on the Working and Mechanical Origin of the Entire Universe on the Basis of Newtonian Laws' (1755) mentioned and explained the gaseous hypotheses of the origin of our solar system.
Kant's gaseous hypothesis is based on Newton's Laws of Gravitation and Rotatory Motion. He assumed the presence of primordial hard and cold matter scattered in the universe wherein participles started colliding against each other due to the mutual gravitational attraction.
The collision led to random motion thus increasing the friction and resultant rise in the temperature of the initially motionless cloud of matter. This soon got transformed into a hot nebula that started spinning around its axis.
According to Kant, the expansion of this hot nebula due to rise in temperature increased the rotatory speed of the nebula and the centrifugal force exceeded the centripetal force leading to separation of the middle part of the nebula forming a ring.
Similarly, eight more rings got separated and the residual central mass of nebula remained as the sun. The irregularity of the rings caused the development of cores or knots for the formation of the planets.
The process was repeated and the rings were separated from the newly formed planets to form satellites i.e. the moons. Thus, the whole solar system comprising the sun, the eight planets and their satellites were formed.
Kant's hypothesis is based on several erroneous facts of science most notably with respect to Newton's First Law of Motion, the source of the primordial matter, collision leading to rotatory motion and law of conservation of angular momentum.
Kant's gaseous hypothesis is based on Newton's Laws of Gravitation and Rotatory Motion. He assumed the presence of primordial hard and cold matter scattered in the universe wherein participles started colliding against each other due to the mutual gravitational attraction.
The collision led to random motion thus increasing the friction and resultant rise in the temperature of the initially motionless cloud of matter. This soon got transformed into a hot nebula that started spinning around its axis.
According to Kant, the expansion of this hot nebula due to rise in temperature increased the rotatory speed of the nebula and the centrifugal force exceeded the centripetal force leading to separation of the middle part of the nebula forming a ring.
Similarly, eight more rings got separated and the residual central mass of nebula remained as the sun. The irregularity of the rings caused the development of cores or knots for the formation of the planets.
The process was repeated and the rings were separated from the newly formed planets to form satellites i.e. the moons. Thus, the whole solar system comprising the sun, the eight planets and their satellites were formed.
Kant's hypothesis is based on several erroneous facts of science most notably with respect to Newton's First Law of Motion, the source of the primordial matter, collision leading to rotatory motion and law of conservation of angular momentum.
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