Observable universe

Social Observation By observing a class at Fontbonne University, there was a variety of observable information that was gathered during the observation. I observed an introduction to statistics course and it was seventy-five-minute meeting and observation occurred on Monday, September 12. I went into the class a few minutes before the class started and picked a seat in the back of the classroom. The classroom was set up with a podium for the teacher at the front of the classroom with a projector. The professor handed out note pages to the students in the front to pass back to all of the students. The professor wrote on a tablet during the class and the notes were projected onto the projector for the students to be able to see. The rest of classroom…

To humans who live on Earth, we perceive Earth as a large mass of land that has been around for about 4.6 billion years. But the Earth is only a small part of what makes up the Universe. Earth is located in the Milky Way Galaxy, and contains billions of stars, which is only a small fraction of the 100 billion galaxies. While the Universe has been around for roughly 13.82 billion years, everyday we learn more and more about the complexities that were once hidden from us. One of the main things…

once upon a time humans were chimp-like and over time developed brains that cracked the "square root of 2" problem — but that doesn't faze him. There are properties of our universe so profoundly complex that no sentient mind, no matter how enhanced, will ever understand them fully. Gardner was a fine…

reminded, time and time again, that I do not matter. That in a universe where stars collide and die and are born again, in a universe where time is measured in eons not seconds, I am not even the blink of an eye. I am absolutely nothing. I am the same nothingness to the universe as the vastness of the universe is to me. There is nothing on this Earth, or even in space, that I can do that will affect this grand universe. I was born with little importance, I will die with little importance, and I…

Than The Universe Age may only be a number, but when it comes to cosmic terms, it is important for certain rules to be obeyed. What we are saying is that it should not be possible for complex creatures to be older than planets or to have a rocky planet that'll predate the stars. It should even be impossible to have a star that is older than the observable Universe. Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hd140283.html) Scientists have declared that the Universe itself…

The third premise of the Kalam cosmological argument states that the universe has a cause of its existence. Craig believes that if he has shown this premise to be true, he has proven the existence of the theistic God. It is important to note that according to current science the beginning of our universe also marks that beginning of time. So, there is no temporal moment before the beginning of our universe at which God might cause our universe to begin. Therefore, God could not have caused our…

The speed of light can be thought of the speed limit of the universe. However 299,792,458 m/s or 670,616,629 mph, as staggering as it may sound, is truly not fast enough to explore the universe. Our solar system from the Sun to Pluto is 328.5 light minutes. This means that going at the speed of light, it would take about five and half hours. That may not sound like too long of a time, especially if it took the New Horizons probe nine years to reach Pluto. However, keep in mind that this is just…

Ever since I was a little child, just like everybody else, aliens in general were a cool thing. The spaceships and the irregular shaped heads were an interesting topic to think about. They drove the parents crazy with their kids always asking why? Where are they? Are they here? As I had grown older, the thoughts of aliens had matured. Going from the clouds being the spaceships to a reasonable theory of how aliens could be a busted myth. There are an estimated one hundred billion galaxies in…

nuclear annihilation. However, none of these scenarios are the facts of the world. You are you, you have not become something that you are not, and the world is as it is. The only place that these fantastical ideas can exist are in the world of fiction, because we live in one universe with one past and an…

It challenges the standard ideas of how we think galaxies work, and it shows that dark matter is real. It has its own separate existence apart from other components of galaxies”. The fact that a galaxy exists which prescribed to the Newtonian rules of physics without the presence of dark matter proves that it is not a flaw in the laws of physics that creates the gravitational problem. Essentially, the fact that a galaxy exist which definitely does not contain dark matter (or at least not…