If I told you not to look behind you, would you look, or would you listen to me? There is a number of factors as to why you would go against what I say despite the possibilities of what could go wrong for you. Would you let your curiosity get the best of you? Would you feel your freedom is being threatened? The answer is yes, we as humans naturally pursue what we cant have. In fact, being told we can't makes us want whatever it is so much more. This is known as reverse psychology. The effects of…
Dark Matter Dark matter is simply matter that does not interact with light. Dark matter does not absorb light, it does not reflect light, it has not relation to the electromagnetic scale whatsoever. Dark matter cannot be seen; therefore, dark matter cannot be observed by physicists. Physicists still know it is there though. The reason physicists know dark matter is abundant is because of its effects on nature. For instance, wind cannot be seen, but it is still there, interacting with nature…
The most challenging course which I excelled in would be Pre-Calculus. Throughout my middle school and high school years math has always been my favorite subject. Math has always come to me as second nature. From the beginning of my junior year in high school I was taking duel enrollment pre-calculus. However, with problems with lacking paper work I was pulled out of the class and had to take a regular pre-ap pre-calculus class. The problem was that everyone else in that class was all ahead of…
Mathematicians help us by explaining what happens around us using the logic of math. For example Isaac Newton who invented calculus; calculus helps us in many ways like understanding the concept of physics, engineering, economics, statistics, and medicine. During his lifetime he made many discoveries on physics, math, and motion. Isaac Newton’s Early Life Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 and died March 31, 1727. His father’s name was Isaac Newton and his mother’s name was Hannah.…
Black holes is a place in space where the gravity in the field is so strong that nothing can escape. A lot of scientists think this is one of the most interesting things in science. The idea and how a black hole works actually has to do with one of the greatest minds in science Albert Einstein. He made the “The Theory of General Relativity,” which talks about how gravity changes light moving. This started to lead back to black holes and how they exist. Obviously black holes are very large and…
Cox (2006, p. 202) defines perfectionism as “The setting of exceptionally high performance standards for oneself.” Whilst this is an appropriate definition of what it means to be a perfectionist, it appears to be considering perfectionism in a unidimensional perspective. Scientific research has now progressed to better understanding perfectionism as a multidimensional personality characteristic, and is therefore now known to be much more complex than this statement may suggest. Multidimensional…
Throughout the span of Earth there have been many great mathematicians. And most of them made a difference in the world by creating new processes of figuring things out. They have created ways of making life easier for the people and how to find out things that used to be impossible to solve and took the best of the best to do. And with these people we got to where we are today. Look at these technological advances without the mathematicians we wouldn’t be like this today. But not all of them…
Time is a force of nature that act on its own like a hurricane and neither yields to man nor its creation. Many had wished for time to go slower or prevent unfortunate events, but one way or the other, time will always be the victor alongside death. Although memories can be kept or preparation for the future can be made, human never conquered time like the event of death will certainly occur. Nothing can prevent time from moving at its own will. Therefore, time is an unstoppable force of nature…
Science has always interested me as a child and I have always been curious on how things worked, taking things apart then reassembling them, and how parts worked together, hence my interest in Legos. This interest on studying how objects interacted with each other then spread to living organisms when I first worked with mealworms in second grade. I was shocked to find that my little mealworm would one day became a big darkling beetle. This expanded interest in living organisms and their relation…
In seventeenth-century Dutch painting, “selective naturalism” is a strategy to show certain artistic effect. The artists chose to delineate some parts of the artwork realistic while show some other parts imaginary. “Selective” indicates that the artist consciously made the choice. Therefore, he painted the unreal parts not because that he could not depict them accurately but because that he intended to show some artistic effects. The following paintings discussed are great examples to illustrate…