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    The overwhelming majority of nature on the planet earth will be forever trapped in the confinement of a less cognitive ability, shackled to the walls of what they can and cannot do. All except for one, awe-inspiring species. The homo sapien, better known as a human, is the most evolved living organism in nature. In order to be classified as a human, one will have to possess many specific qualities. The anatomical body of a homosapien being cannot be viable without the possession of moral…

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    The Myths Before the completely new way of thinking known as philosophy had emerged, myths answered the questions of the world. A myth is a story involving gods that explains certain situations, origins, or events in nature. In Nordic culture there was no lack of myths. Thor, a prominent god and character of many myths, had a hammer which caused thunderstorms. Thor’s hammer was also a vital weapon in the ongoing battle between the gods and the giants. This battle was a, “mythological…

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    Human beings have sought answers to major existential questions since the dawning of consciousness many centuries ago. Some of the most significant of these concerns are Peter Berger’s four existential imperatives: Who am I, why am I here, how should I live, and what happens when I die? These questions are extraordinarily intricate and unfathomably complex; therefore, try as we may, human beings have yet to determine the answers to these questions and discover for certain what exactly is our…

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    Dwarf planets are considered to be those mass’s in space which are neither planet nor natural satellite. More explicitly, they are a mass which, unlike a moon, orbit around the sun, and due to the pull and force of their self-gravity are of a sufficient mass that they form an almost rounded spherical shape however they are not of a sufficient size to gravitationally clear the neighbourhood around their orbit. (Williams, M) In comparison the definition of a planet, as defined by the…

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    Space is a Gift Look in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No it’s one of NASA’s rockets! What do you think they’re doing? They’re exploring space of course! Why would they do that? Every day, you’ll hear people say, “space is a waste,” but I don’t think that's true. Don’t believe me? Believe the facts. According to the text “Space: Let’s Go!” by Rick Washington, “NASA created Velcro which is now used in many clothing items, bags and so forth.” There are many more things to be discovered…

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    gravity, as in the falling of bodies to the earth. (Oxford Dictionary) Introduction : For centuries, mankind has always been fascinated by the celestial bodies. The motion of the stars and planets were at once a symbol of the divine order of the universe and a profound challenge for human understanding. For the ancient Greeks the separation between the terrestrial and celestial realms was absolute--the downward motion of falling objects was thought of as a "natural tendency" towards the center…

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    Albert Vinicio Baez Essay

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    Albert Vinicio Báez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/; November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister. Baez grew up in Brooklyn and considered becoming a minister before turning to mathematics and physics. He made important contributions to the early development of X-ray microscopes and later…

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    Astronomy, the study of the universe, is said to be the oldest of the sciences. Ancient civilizations observed heavenly events such as the passage of days and nights and the phases of the moon. From ancient times until the Renaissance, astronomy was orientated on the most accurate description of motions of celestial bodies observed with the naked eye: stars, and mainly planets including the Sun and the Moon. One aspect of the sky which does not appear to change is the pattern of the stars.…

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    Age Of The Universe Essay

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    about visiting the universe? Or have over viewed it? It is amazing how scientists are able to make discoveries about the universe. Incredibly, scientists have invented special instruments that can tell wether an object is moving away from Earth or towards it, and they also made many other such instruments. Yet, there are many questions an average person would ask such as, How was the universe formed, how old is the universe, and will the universe expand forever? The universe is a huge wide open…

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    Everything that has physics, has math. Physics is the language of math. For example, posters tapped against a wall. There are all kinds of forces to that, forces like contact force, Gravity, and normal force. Gravity exist among all objects in the universe. Like in the wall and the posters tapped against it. The two objects attract gravity towards each other. Connected to the example of the wall, and gravity, normal force is the supported force upon the two objects, because they are in contact…

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