Galaxy

“Today, we will start our journey to attain cosmic consciousness. First, let us remember the privilege of seeing the wondrous sights in the solar systems, interstellar space, and the intergalactic space during the journey here across the Milky Way Galaxy. In essence, cosmic consciousness is an awareness of the connections amongst all matter in the universe. Furthermore, it is a state of achieving pure knowledge of everything in the universe here and now without having to travel anywhere.…

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire careers have been spent designing, building, and preparing to analyze data streaming in to LIGO. Their goal: To confirm, once and for all,…

Introduction The Matrix is a popular American-Australian science fiction movie that was first produced in 1999. The action movie depicts a unique dystopian future where the human-perceived reality is seen as a stimulated reality known as “the Matrix”. This stimulated reality created by sentient machines was designed to subdue the human population and use the heat and electrical activity of the human bodies as source of energy. A computer programmer known as “Neo” discovered the secret behind the…

A common English idiom says “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes there aren’t even words to describe a picture. That is the case for “The Pillars of Creation”. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The photo depicts a nebula with three towers of gaseous regions, hence the name; in a way, it is metaphorical. Fortunately, for the normal people in the world, there are no controversies that provoke unreasonable people. The article “Ways of Seeing”, by John Berger,…

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…

Part A: 1. Where did the culture you have chosen originate from? The culture I have chosen originated from China. It was developed by Taoist monks a couple hundred years after Lao Zi who was believed to have been born in 571 BCE. 2. What is a brief outline of the cultural explanation chosen? China has a variety of creation stories but the most well-known one is about P’an Ku. Long ago there was a time when neither heaven nor earth existed. Everything was in darkness, unformed and unseparated…

1. How do humans owe their lives to the deaths of stars? • These stars created us occurring to science. 2. What's a nebula? • A cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and gas. 3. Explain the process by which a star is formed. • Gas and dust form in a size 10 times our solar system. 4. What creates a star’s heat/energy (use the words hydrogen and helium in your answer). • Burning hydrogen and converting it into helium. 5. What's the most common type of star? • Red Dwarfs. 6. Why do bigger stars…

Hello there. I will be talking about Olbers’ Paradox. In the year 1826, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers’ proposed a controversial question about what makes the night sky dark if the universe contains an infinite number of bright stars (Newton 1). This question fascinates me because every celestial object that can be observed with our eyes, should have an important reason and role to play. The paradox about the night sky was also argued by Kepler as stated in his “Conversations with the…

Intro The universe house's countless dangers. Some are small such as wild fires or sink holes. These natural hazards seem large to us but compered to a black hole they are extremely minute. The idea of earth being swallowed by a black hole is terrifying one. One of the things that we fear most about black holes is how little we know about them. We know that they have incredibly strong gravitational force. By the time you got anywhere near it your atoms would have been ground up and used to fuel…

In the past 15 years, astronomers have achieved leaps and bounds in terms of spotting exoplanets. It had gone from producing no results to being possible. One method, known as Transit, involves continually observing stars and noting whenever spots of it become dimmer. By calculating how much of the star’s light was dimmed, astronomers can also indicate the approximate size of the planet’s radius. It can also tell astronomers what the atmosphere of an exoplanet consists of by looking at the light…