New Universe

gave people new knowledge about how the human body reacts to different diseases. Also before this people had no knowledge of what bacteria was or how to cure diseases so this made people view their bodies…

we discussed about the origins of the universe in module number one. Afterwards, we touched upon the origins of life in module number two. Currently, we talked over the origins of societies and culture in module number three. Even though the three different modules all seem to be broad and different, I believe they have an important similarity, and that is classification. As humans, we have the tendency to classify everything around us, from the universe we live in to the society where we…

to me most are the images taken of the universe surrounding us. The Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) images are the quintessential example of what drives me to achieve greatness in life. Not only have they shaped me to be the person I am today, but they’ve given me a better understanding of the honors program at NAU and my education as a whole. For thousands of years, the human race were unaware that there could be more to the universe than just the known planets and our sun…

This is something that is touched on in the book The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman. Lightman puts forth information on several universes that are as thought provoking as they are powerful. The following are some items that were learned, some points agreed with and why. A few points that created an internal debate for the reader leading to a change of mind. Lastly, a personal recommendation on the book is set forth. Surprising New Information One of the first items that was surprising,…

Galileo later then expanded on Copernicus’s theory and to prove it, Galileo and made the telescope better. He saw the farthest into the universe than anyone before. He saw that there were craters on the surface of the moon. He saw that there were spots on to sun. Galileo was that there were multiple moons were orbiting Jupiter. He observed Venus moving through phases much like Earth’s moon. This information persuaded Galileo that Copernicus was right. Just as Jupiter’s moons orbited that giant…

Energy is a mysterious and everlasting component which exists within the universe; it is the existential source of power which human beings have harnessed through technology in order to progress and evolve. It is fair to note that energy is quintessential to every action and reaction occurring in the universe at all times. Furthermore, the law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed but can be transferred between different forms and states and even between…

possibly played a large part in cosmic reionization. Rachel Livermore an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin says “That when they detected galaxies as faint they did it supports the idea that a lot of little galaxies reionized the early universe and that these galaxies may have played a bigger role in reionization than we thought”. A team verified the blurred galaxies that were in pictures with the Hubble Space Telescope. With the information, they have learned…

scientific community, the universe began its "life" roughly 14 billion years ago when space, time and even the atoms in our bodies formed in less than a blink of an eye. The universe expanded rapidly - from the size of a pin's head to that of the entire Solar System in less than a few seconds, and it is still growing to form the cold, dark and inhospitable vastness that we know today. Among all the…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

possess the scientific brilliance to discover new data as well as the brave audacity to challenge previous theories bring us closer to a true contemplation of the universe. Similarly, throughout the work of scientists, noticeably Nicholas Copernicus and Galilei Galileo, the human understanding of the universe grew from an arrogant system that revolves around Earth into the eloquent heliocentric system we now know to be true today. The employment of new technology and data is the first prominent…