Particle physics

Dystopia and utopia. Two sides of the same coin showing a science fiction setting of two extreme points. Each person has their own vision of utopia. In the nineteenth century, mankind believed in the perfectibility of humankind and in the real possibility of an ultimate utopia, a perfect society”. A time when everybody could live in perfect peace. But, the events of the twentieth century have defiled that idea. These two extremes of speculative fiction have always provided a stark contrast…

hard math problems during my middle school years, understanding Binomial Theorem saved me a lot of time and work to obtain the correct answer. Furthermore, learning Calculus enabled me to solve higher level of physics problems and helped me generate interests toward electromagnetic physics. Second, in his time period, the discovery of “the Law of Universal Gravitation” would be viewed as a contradictory and wrong statement instead of a correct fascinating new sight. He himself claimed that his…

“Some areas of knowledge seek to describe the world, whereas others seek to transform it.” Explore this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. An Area of Knowledge aims to describe (expressing or noting knowledge) or to transform (change or modify completely) the world, which refers to the planet Earth and all the biotic and abiotic factors in it. This is an assumption that is embedded in the title and it triggers the question; can’t they seek to do both? Description and transformation…

I actively avoided were some of the harder science ones like Chemistry or Biology. I also did not go to the Health Science tables. This event made me very excited about the PPE Major. I went to the “What’s in a Major” events for Computer Science, Physics, and PPE. I did not go to Engineering because it was not yet on my radar. The Computer Science advisor was very nice and made me very excited about Computer Science. She especially liked pointing out the combined majors and the possibility of…

is divided into two types: crystalline solid is a solid that is made up of crystals and its particles are arranged in a regular pattern. When a crystalline solid is heated, it melts at a specific temperature. The second type is the amorphous solid, the particles aren`t arranged in a regular pattern. Different of a crystalline solid, the amorphous solid doesn`t melt…

author and astronomer. He excelled in both math and physics and has been developing theories since his early twenties. Isaac Newton attended a grammar school in Grantham near Lincolnshire, where as during this time Newton became very interested with chemicals. In 1664 Newton at that time was a student, he read up on work containing optics and light. He was reading the work of English Physicist Robert Boyle and studied up on the math and physics of french scientist and philosopher Rene…

Astronomy and Astrology: A Battle of Two Ancestral Brothers Astronomy, being an actual natural science, and not just predictions and magic, is a much more useful practice than its ancestral brother, astrology. Though, long ago, astronomy and astrology were once thought to be the one and the same, in the modern era, these two "sciences" are different in both the way they are practiced, and the tools with which you practice them. Astronomy, considered to be the more "real", respected science out…

People are constantly trying to define what happiness is and if you are happy or not, but have you ever wondered where it is? In Eric Weiners humorous travel memoir, The Geography of Bliss (335 pages),he travels to several countries, including The Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India, and America, in search for where one can find true contentment. In every location, he observes several different ways those countries have become some of the…

R/W #7 These Dudes Wrote Some Pretty Dope Essays (A Critique of Three Key Transcendentalism Ideas Outlined by Emerson and Thoreau) Considered the greatest theoretical physicist in history, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to Jost Winteler, “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”. Einstein refers to another physicist, Paul Drude, who dismissed Einstein’s critique of his electron theory of metals as out of hand. This quote speaks louder than just a feud between…

The book, structure of Scientific Revolutions, is one of the most famous books authored by Thomas Kuhn. He introduces a wide array of concepts within the essay that explains the course of scientific revolution in the world. However, the essay has received wide criticisms from other scholars especially for what they refer to as his ‘relativistic’ nature. To understand or take a position as to whether the arguments of his charges of relativism are valid, an understanding of the term is necessary,…