Spacetime

The Multiverse Theory is one of the most talked about theories in the modern age. It entails how there is a chance that we are not the only universe in existence but rather there are tens of thousands of other universes. This leaves all kinds of possibilities to the imagination; maybe someone was born with red hair rather than blonde, maybe someone became president rather than a physics professor. There are an infinite number of possibilities which causes the Multiverse Theory to also be a…

Perception of Science as Inaccessibility Science is often imagined as apathetic scientists methodically mixing different colored liquids in expensive labs with extensive procedures and regulations. Science is the epitome of method, and often held in high regard. Yet with all this regulation much of the public still doubts scientific findings. The debates over the validity of climate change continue, despite the massive amount of verification and confirmation on the subject. The public sometimes…

The present is considered to be an "objective property" which can be perceived as a moving spotlight. As time passes, the universe expands and the "block" is said to be growing. This "growth" takes place in spacetime - the fourth dimension - whilst the past is considered to be locked in history. The present however is ontologically most significant here because it is representative of an equilibrium state from which we can measure change as time progresses,…

Out of all the mysteries in the world, the most popular happens to be the Bermuda Triangles. Some people believe that something mystical is involved in the Bermuda Triangles. The mysterious Bermuda Triangle has a total area of 500,000 square kilometers. Scientists have discovered interesting formations on the bottom of the seafloor. The location of the formations lye in the Bermuda Triangle boundaries. At various points on the ocean floor, it drops to huge depths. Within this area, people have…

may defy simple vocabulary.” Some of his works based on existentialism are Death by Black Hole, a book about space and putting humanking in the perspective of the universe, Welcome to the Universe, a book on astrophysics, and his show, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”. Some of his quotes are also featured in the single, “Exist”, by the popular metal band, Avenged Sevenfold. In his show, he explains the history of the universe and how it related to humankind, such as the evolution of species or the…

that is the consciousness that has created them. Zeno’s Paradox and the Quantum Revolution The full implications of the quantum revolution have not really sufficiently penetrated our classical understanding of the world. Einstein’s development of “spacetime” perpetuates the classical problem of proposing an absolute reality independent of the reality that creates it. Biocentrism reveals the ways that contemporary physics recapitulates the problems of Zeno’s paradox in the infinite divisibility…

The great Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something along the lines of humans have only discovered about 4% of the universe. Not only does my fear of what I don't know going on below my feet in the ocean scare the crap out of me, but that big star filled sky does as well. It doesn't just scare me, but it probably scares and excites scientists studying it all over the world. Since we only know a fraction of the inter-workings of the universe, there are many questions and things going on that we…

Philosophical Underpinning: Alexander Pope Whenever religion is “put on the table” there are likely two outcomes that can play out. Either people evade the conversation completely, in order to not start heated debates, or it can have the opposite effect. People would clamor to say their belief is just. The same can be said when it comes to the power of God(s) or lack of. Individuals on one hand would say God works in mysterious ways and those ways cannot be questioned. Others would say, with…

communicate with them. Lastly, Neil deGrasse Tyson is very well known. He has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History since 1997, hosted the popular StarTalk podcast, hosted the television show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and authored four books. As a Washington Post reporter on Tyson’s speech put it, “Tyson is likely the world’s most beloved astrophysicist — a strong ambassador for the flagging agency” (Kolawole). Most people even slightly…

Negative Energy Alec Li, Sydney Osugi Period 2, AP Physics  The term positive energy encompasses light, matter and antimatter. While positive energy is created through the collision of electrons and their positron counterparts, collisions with negative energy and matter result in nothing. Negative energy is the concept that there is a region of space that is able to “contain less than nothing … can be less than zero”(`Negative Energy'' Solutions: Hole Theory). The law of the conservation…