Cosmology

passion for Astronomy, and it was so interesting to discover the immense effect that Pythagoras’s theory, the Music of the Spheres, had on Johannes Kepler, and the connection between the three types of music that Boethius discovered in his studies of cosmology. According to the common belief during the Middle Ages, the universe was comprised of many nested celestial spheres, or orbs. According…

Metaphysics is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world. Cosmology and ontology are the two traditional branches of metaphysics. Cosmology seeks to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the universe at large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order. Ontology is the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. Ontology deals with questions concerning what…

Imagine, if you were not yourself, yet at the same time you were. Imagine that you had led a completely different life. Maybe you were a soldier, an engineer, a banker, or maybe you did nothing with your life. What if you were born a with a different name, different gender, a different race; what if you were not born at all. Imagine a world where the American Revolution never happened, The Allies fell to the Axis, or the Cold War ended in nuclear annihilation. However, none of these scenarios…

The Universe appeared in a defining moment of the past of all the matter and energy existing at present; It is an event postulated by the generally accepted cosmological theory. Astronomers are mostly convinced that the Universe arose at a definite instant, between 12,000 and 20,000 million years before the present moment. If it had a beginning or creation, would it be logical to think Which must be the work of an initiator or a creator? So many believe. Smoot said, "It 's like seeing God."…

Wang Aihe’s Cosmology and Political Culture reexamines the relation between cultural heritage of cosmology and political heritage of the Chinese empires through Shang to Han dynasty by taking a closer look into the transition from sifang 四方(“four quarters”) to wuxing五行(“five phases”) cosmology. In this ambitious book, she effectively argues that Chinese “cosmology and political power were mutually constructive” (p. 210) instead of being static and self-existing, and in so doing, successfully…

Big History has produced many themes within in context, with the most prominent being complexity. However, expansion can also be seen as the most important theme that traverses through the Big History story. Expansion can be seen in at the very beginning with the Big Bang, through the increasing expanding universe that we live in today, it can also be seen in the creation and development of our stars and planets. Furthermore, expansion allows for the many diverse and different organism alive on…

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 Doctrine and Covenants offers insight to some of the universal questions: Where did I come from, where am I going, and why am I here? People have been trying to figure out these questions for centuries. Many vast theories and ideas have been presented whether that be science or religious based. Many people have provided some well thought out ideas, but unfortunately incomplete. Who would know the answers to these questions but the creator of man who played a sole part in where we…

The Big Bang is the most widely accepted theory about how our universe first began. This theory was first proposed by Belgian priest Georges Lemaître in the 1920’s. It suggests the universe was once condensed into a space equivalent to less than a grain of sand and expanded to billions of kilometers wide in about a second producing incredible amounts of heat. Everything you see is from that rapid expansion. That’s difficult to imagine, however, 3 major pieces of evidence support this; Hubble’s…