Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Lecture 9: Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System

Brown, Big History, chap. 1.

Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 3.

Delsemme, Our Cosmic Origins, chap. 4.

Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, chap. 2.

Chaisson, Epic of Evolution, chap. 4.

1. What are the main constituents of the solar system?


2. What were the crucial processes and forces that created the objects in
   our solar system?

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading

Questions to Consider