ABSTRACT

Cosmology has developed as a modern science only in the last ninety years or so since the arrival of Einstein's theory of relativity, which is a law that combined a description of gravity with electro-magnetism, matter, space and time; added to relativity have been the discoveries made about the interior part of atoms under the general title of "quantum mechanics". Cosmology at its most basic can be defined as the practice of drawing a picture of the universe and the result of such activity which is the picture itself. Cosmology begins with astronomy and is concerned with providing a description of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars. The reason that cosmology exists as a study resides not only in the intrinsic interest of the motions of heavenly objects, but in their regularity. The issue of the place of man in the universe necessarily arises when considering the universe as a whole, which constitutes the object of cosmology.