PART A: LISTENING NOTES PART B: SUMMARRY The episode THE SHAW PRIZE: ASTRONOMY/MATHS broadcast on Sep. 7th , 2015, recounts the stories of Shall Prize laureates. They are Bill Burocki, an astronomer, Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniezproletarian, mathematicians. They crowned share of Shaw Prize for making fundamental contribution to astronomy and mathematics. The Shaw Prize is an internationally prestigious award to recommend excellency in astronomy, life science and…
Since the Big Bang there has been a noticeable and continuous development or evolution that has led to our current existence. History has always contained a constant change, whether it is physical, mental or environmental. From the first hydrogen and helium atoms, to the formation of the planet we call Earth. From the earliest forms of life to the age of dinosaurs to the evolution of homo-sapiens. Most importantly the recent the shift of mindset from the Roman Empire to the feudalistic Organic…
for thousands of years the human race have looked into space and wondered what is really out there, thanks to advances in electromagnetic radiation detection it is now possible for humans to study the universe in depth to develop theories such as a heliocentric model of the universe instead of the earlier believed geocentric model. Humans have also been able to observe never before seen phenomena such as the effects of black holes. The national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) are…
Day 1 I recently went on a trip to Europe with my mom, dad, brother, grandma, and grandpa. It was like living out the movie National Lampoon’s European Vacation but with two more people. I experienced a lot of cool and funny stuff throughout the trip and took some pretty cool pictures. So, I thought why not share the experience with you all? Every day I’ll write my experience of each day on my vacation and post pictures as well. The first day might be a bit boring compared to the others because…
“Someday your prince will come!” What does this say to women today? Yeah, go ahead and waste your time waiting on some guy to come and take care of you…Why would you try and do something for yourself when there will be a man to do it for you? Pop culture of today has brought with it the idea that women are, and should be, dependent upon men. Women are not meant to overpower men, they are not meant to anything but sit and wait on a man to come and take control of their very lives. The movies and…
Something from Nothing: The Big Bang Even though the equal balance of matter and antimatter created in the beginning of the universe as proposed by the Big Bang theory might have annihilated each other before any stars could form, the inflation model of the Big Bang accounts for the unequal level of matter-antimatter existing today and how stars could form before matter-antimatter reactions destroyed the universe. The existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). is in line…
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…
42: The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything: Existentialism in the Hitchhikers Guide In a world without meaning, what are we to do? Aliens, humans, existential robots, and pan-galactic beings, all ask some version of the above question in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and none of them is ever provided an answer except for “42”. Although there is no ultimate answer to the purpose of life, these creatures all react differently in the face of nothingness. While some choose to bemoan…
While many concepts on astronomy of the ancient Greeks are no longer relevant, many of their ideas were used to guide astronomers today in establishing concepts more valid. The ancient Greeks had no clear division of science and philosophy. Neither did they have separate and developed fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. The formerly deficient range of information the ancient Greeks had, allowed an individual to become an expert in several fields whereas nowadays, there is…