Enrico Fermi

I) Wars are unpredictable; they can range from massive to small- either way, a war is a conflict that can drastically affect the lives of people. Occasionally we are unaware about the wars that are destroying the lives of others yet we can't escape the reality of the bloodshed that is the result of war; we are eventually informed about what is occurring. Sometimes we do multiple attempts to lend a hand, but other times our minds are not completely wrapped around the issue at hand which makes it…

The opera Madame Butterfly written by Giacomo Puccini is a story about a young maiden from Japan who is in an arranged marriage to Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton a soldier in the U.S. Navy. Lieutenant Pinkerton sees the marriage as a business deal, purchasing a house and servants, as well as receiving the fair maiden Madame Butterfly as a wife. Yet, Madame Butterfly believes that Lieutenant Pinkerton is marrying her for love. Not long after their marriage, Lieutenant Pinkerton tells Madame Butterfly…

In late August, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute revealed that they had detected a strange signal that was 94 light years away from Earth. During the time of the signal’s discovery, senior astronomer for SETI, Seth Shostak, could only describe the signal as “interesting”. However, he rhetorically asks, “Could it be another society sending a signal our way?” Shostak, like many other scientists who had heard about the mysterious SETI signal, had hoped for signs of…

The Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks zone are two great reasons for life on other plants, however, the Fermi Paradox could fall either way. It could fall for or against life on other planets because of this there are many scientists working through to find what's true. While people may choose their side and think that there is or isn’t life on other planets. There are thousands of conspiracy theories about alien life being real. If so, why haven’t they contacted us? Are they just not as…

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1944. When he returned to Germany, he became president of a the former Kaiser Wilhelm Society. He then became a respected public figure and a spokesman for science. He protested nuclear weapons. In 1966 he won the Enrico Fermi Award. Hahn’s discoveries did many things. He discovered nuclear fission, which helped create the atomic bomb. He made many contributions through the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Overall we should thank Otto…

war. The invention was suppose to be way to get cheap energy, and the man for this invention is a Italian physiste and for his discover of nuclear use was used. The Italian physist his name is Emrico Fermi, he became a physist when is brother died and then he came to America to go to college. Fermi applied for college and his Essay was so outstanding that the Faculty was so Impressed that they imighted not as a Freshmen but as a Doctarl candidate, soon he was teaching his Teacher's. In 1938 he…

it, except for the fact that it harbors life. Though millions of other planets with similar conditions to Earth exist, scientists have yet to find another planet occupied by any sort of intelligent beings. This led Enrico Fermi to pose the question, “Where is everybody?” (Fermi) Perhaps, the answer to this questions is that extraterrestrials exist, but simply undetected. Assuming that life developed other planets similarly to the way that it arose on Earth, the aliens may look similar to…

The Fermi paradox is frequently misrepresented, even in name alone. Using Fermi’s name falsifies Enrico Fermi’s own opinions on the subject. Fermi was skeptical about the possibility of interstellar travel, but not necessarily the possibility of intelligent life. The paradox however is frequently interpreted to mean that the absence of contact or artifact is evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence does not exist. The “they are not here; therefore they do not exist” argument was not…

Military use of atomic energy was an interest to foreign physicists living in the United States, who included Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, and Victor Weisskopf. All of these physicists knew that any German breakthrough or research on nuclear weapons at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin would be a problem not only for their homeland…

The most lethal weapon ever used and known to mankind is the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb has taken hundreds of thousands of lives throughout many occasions. It was made seventy years ago from today, here in the United States, with the help of scientists from around the world. During World War II, the Germans made advancements in the making of nuclear weaponry. This led to scientists to collaborate in the United States and create a nuclear weapon before Germany did. The race to create the…