For my science reader project I read the first one hundred pages of the book, Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light and Other Explorations in Nature’s Curiosity Shop. In the first one hundred pages I read twelve short essays that addressed topics ranging from measuring the vastness of our universe to global warming
In the first story I read, Sky Wanderers, the authors taught me about a beneficial acronym (My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Pies) to remember the names of the planets in order of closest to farthest away from the Sun. Furthermore the chapter discusses the major facts known to us about the additional eight other planets in our solar system. Going in the same order as the acronym, He started with the planet Mercury. The planet …show more content…
At this point the density of the black hole is believed to be theoretically infinite.
In the Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light chapter, I learned about what the speed of light is and why nothing can go faster than it. The speed of light is 186,291 miles per second, which is fast enough to go around the earth seven times in one second. In a Vacuum nothing can go faster than the speed of light because once that speed is reached all additional energy put into it turns into a mass and no longer increases the speed. Moreover, time slows down when traveling the speed of light and can go faster when not inside a vacuum.
In the Did Humans Come from Monkeys chapter, I learned that humans did not evolve from monkeys, but instead humans and monkeys both evolved from a common ancestor. The evolutionary chain that will lead to humans started with Ancestral old world Monkeys then split off into today’s old world monkeys and the chimpanzee and human evolutionary line. From the chimpanzee and human line it broke off into today’s modern apes and our ancient ancestors. Also, I learned that humans have stopped evolving for about 50,000 years due to our use of tools and
In the first story I read, Sky Wanderers, the authors taught me about a beneficial acronym (My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Pies) to remember the names of the planets in order of closest to farthest away from the Sun. Furthermore the chapter discusses the major facts known to us about the additional eight other planets in our solar system. Going in the same order as the acronym, He started with the planet Mercury. The planet …show more content…
At this point the density of the black hole is believed to be theoretically infinite.
In the Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light chapter, I learned about what the speed of light is and why nothing can go faster than it. The speed of light is 186,291 miles per second, which is fast enough to go around the earth seven times in one second. In a Vacuum nothing can go faster than the speed of light because once that speed is reached all additional energy put into it turns into a mass and no longer increases the speed. Moreover, time slows down when traveling the speed of light and can go faster when not inside a vacuum.
In the Did Humans Come from Monkeys chapter, I learned that humans did not evolve from monkeys, but instead humans and monkeys both evolved from a common ancestor. The evolutionary chain that will lead to humans started with Ancestral old world Monkeys then split off into today’s old world monkeys and the chimpanzee and human evolutionary line. From the chimpanzee and human line it broke off into today’s modern apes and our ancient ancestors. Also, I learned that humans have stopped evolving for about 50,000 years due to our use of tools and