Fictional universe

mentioned briefly in chap- ter 2, the two main aspects of deity that Wiccans work with are simply called the Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the divine. In Wic- can thought, the union of the Goddess and God creates the universe. The rela- tionship between the Goddess and God is symbiotic. Like darkness and light, each half needs the other to express itself fully. The God represents, among…

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist. Nicolaus Copernicus is the first astronomer to discover that earth and the other planets within the solar system all revolve around the sun. As before the discovery, astronomers believed that earth was the center of the solar system and everyone revolved around it. Therefore, based on Nicolaus Copernicus discovery, it has contributed to astronomical history Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer,…

William Herschel discovered the first planet in recorded times, we know it as Uranus. Herschel interestingly enough was actually a musician and an amateur astronomer when he first laid eyes upon Uranus. Herschel does not credit his discovery to chance, rather it was a result of his diligent studies of the heavens that allowed him to discover the planet. At the time Herschel had been surveying the skies at night trying discover all the double stars, he was using his home made telescope which was…

Best phrased by surgeon, author, and inventor Leonard Shlain in his book, Art & Physics, “Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.” However dissimilar Vincent van Gough’s Starry Night may seem from Isaac Newton’s second law of motion, according to Shlain, this is what fundamentally unifies the two subjects. Physics is the study of the natural world, while art is the representation of it. Art has been part of our culture longer than any of the…

Tristan Sigurdsson LA 6 | Period 6-7 | Is The Japanese Creation Myth Relevant? Some people believe that ancient myths do not affect the modern world, but others may think that they do affect the modern world. The Japanese creation myth or Tenchikaibyaku is the story of how the world might have been created. The story starts as the earth being a muddy sea, then a god appears and makes more gods because this one god is alone, and the other gods then turn into different things like the sun,…

Using physics, we can calculate the mass of a bolt fired from a blaster used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. First of all, we know that these bolts are not lasers based on two facts: they can be seen from the side and they do not travel at the speed of light. Thus, from there, we have to find their velocity. Rhett Allain calculated that to be about 35 m/s. He did this by finding distance and time of various bolts fired throughout the series, dividing the two measurements, and averaging out all…

This paper does a excellent job of outlining the Islamic influence that was placed on the Renaissance. All three questions were answered in complete detail and there was plenty of support for the claim made in this paper. The thesis of the paper is clear and accurate. Based off of this paper, one can gather although it wasn’t recognized by everyone, Islamic teaching was the main factor that held up the Renaissance. Gloria moved onto defending her point by defining what the Renaissance was…

most important life forms, they are failing to understand the concept of what really matters in life; they are forgetting to live in a biocentric universe. Humans need to learn to love this world along with living in the moment and sharing a symbiotic relationship with nature. Mary Oliver uses her poetry to demonstrate the importance of a biocentric universe by showing the reader how simplistic the natural world is. In “Spring,” Mary Oliver suggests to love the world like a bear does. The…

The story of creation, according to the Aztecs, is about birth, death, and rebirth of a god to sun. When the story is told, the order of the worlds is never really in order and not all of them are there all the time, but the main idea about it remains. In the beginning of the Aztec creation story, the dual god, Ometecuhtli/Omecihuatl, created itself. This god was considered good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being that it was also a female, it was able to have four children. The…

live in a world that does not just hand us all the answers. There is no ‘cheat sheet’ for the secrets of the universe. Each group of ‘truth seekers” has its own beliefs, and “knowledge,” about the actuality of God and an afterlife. This lack of omniscience compounded by all these different beliefs and theories opens the door for numerous “what ifs” about the nature of God and our universe, and the “life” that awaits us after we die. In “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, David Eagleman…