Big Bang

Gravitational theory is a theory that states any two particles attract each other with a force that is equal to the product of the two masses. Before Newton, the views on gravity and the motion of the planets, were quite different. Aristotle believed the universe never had a beginning and would never end; he believed it was eternal. Kepler’s view on gravity and motion was that the planets orbited around the sun and orbits faster the closer it becomes to the sun. Galileo believed if something…

So supposedly because of the stars, I fit into our cosmic bubble because the stars are associated with the cosmic bubble. Stars were created when clumps of hydrogen formed together to create helium while releasing light. This fusion continued on until stars created enough iron and an enormous amount of energy explodes that is called a supernova.This fusion would not have been completed without the stars heating up to 13 miliion degrees. Stardust was then spread out with the elements and the…

Our universe is fading according to a recent study done by GAMA (Galaxy and mass assembly). After surveying light from as far back as two billion years the survey found that the light in our universe is fading and will have gone black in 100 billion years. This is due to two main factors. Fewer stars (the universe's light bulbs) are being made and our universe is expanding. “More stars are dying then being born” we know this because after looking 2 billion years into the past we have seen a…

PART A: LISTENING NOTES PART B: SUMMARRY The episode THE SHAW PRIZE: ASTRONOMY/MATHS broadcast on Sep. 7th , 2015, recounts the stories of Shall Prize laureates. They are Bill Burocki, an astronomer, Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniezproletarian, mathematicians. They crowned share of Shaw Prize for making fundamental contribution to astronomy and mathematics. The Shaw Prize is an internationally prestigious award to recommend excellency in astronomy, life science and…

Armine Maghakyan Maghakyan 1 Robert Savino Oventile English 1 C 28 September 2017 Laughter in Anthropocene: solution or ignorance? For almost twelve thousand years, our planet lived in an analogously stable epoch named Holocene by the scientists (McNeill and Engelke 1). Holocene (entirely new) period is impressively…

Cameron Ross 11 October 2017 Mr. Weeks UW 111 Grit- Book Review The uncertainty of the world is what makes it the breeding ground for scientific exploration and discovery. There a multitudes of questions, left unanswered, whether it be the creation of the universe, or the complex in workings known as the human brain. One of these great anomalies is the question, how do people become successful? There are numerous ways in which one might answer such a question, from personal belief to scientific…

the sole human survivor flung into a senseless alien universe, Arthur must come to terms that the planet he once defined himself by is inconsequential: “There was no way his imagination could feel the impact of the whole Earth having gone, it was too big. “He thought of all the people he had been close to. No reaction. [….] McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out. When he came round a second later he found he was sobbing” (53). Here,…

While many concepts on astronomy of the ancient Greeks are no longer relevant, many of their ideas were used to guide astronomers today in establishing concepts more valid. The ancient Greeks had no clear division of science and philosophy. Neither did they have separate and developed fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. The formerly deficient range of information the ancient Greeks had, allowed an individual to become an expert in several fields whereas nowadays, there is…

One concept that has interested is dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the thing that makes it possible for galaxies to exist. When astrophysicists and cosmologist calculated why the universe is structure the way it is, it became clear that there’s just not enough normal matter. The gravity of the visible matter is not strong enough to from galaxies and complex structures. The starts would more likely be scattered all over the place and not form galaxies. Therefore, cosmologist concluded…

Have you ever thought that something in the ground would be inside of you at some point in time? Or what's inside of you right now was at some point in time was in a cow? The process of recycling atoms makes this possible. Everything is made up of a star that exploded in space a billion years ago. The Law of Conservation of Mass, discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in 1785, states that matter can not be created or destroyed makes the process of recycling atoms true/possible. When a person exhales…