State of matter

One concept that has interested is dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the thing that makes it possible for galaxies to exist. When astrophysicists and cosmologist calculated why the universe is structure the way it is, it became clear that there’s just not enough normal matter. The gravity of the visible matter is not strong enough to from galaxies and complex structures. The starts would more likely be scattered all over the place and not form galaxies. Therefore, cosmologist concluded…

The Big Bang is the most widely accepted theory about how our universe first began. This theory was first proposed by Belgian priest Georges Lemaître in the 1920’s. It suggests the universe was once condensed into a space equivalent to less than a grain of sand and expanded to billions of kilometers wide in about a second producing incredible amounts of heat. Everything you see is from that rapid expansion. That’s difficult to imagine, however, 3 major pieces of evidence support this; Hubble’s…

IMPOSSIBLE. Not only...but also, You can never escape the black hole’s gravity. According to theory, within a black hole there’s something called a singularity. (Whats inside a black hole?, By: Camille M. Carlisle). A singularity is what all the matter in a black hole gets crushed into. For instance, think of a black hole as a pit. You can never get out. Let me give you some advice; Do not fall into a black…

inquisitive mind reading this, will immediately have two distinct phrases come to mind: Dark matter and dark energy. From being mentioned in groundbreaking scientific journals and television and movie series’ to even this essay you are reading, dark matter and its existence has made quite the impression on scientists, documentarians and aspiring students.…

3.1.3 Consistency indices Fine-grained soils are formed in nature by the gradual deposition of soil particles from suspension in water. In the process of settlement, consolidation and drying out, the material passes through several well-defined states, namely: liquid suspension; viscous liquid; plastic solid; semi- plastic solid;…

I leave this quarter more aware of my weaknesses than I started. However, I believe that I am also more prepared to address them on a personal level than I was three months ago. I continue to lack follow-through. My desk is littered with sticky notes and unfinished drafts. I believe that the solution to this is to carve a space in my day, every day, for writing creative work. I have made plans to adjust my schedule to address this, and while it will not go into effect until fall quarter, I am…

used a method different than most star gazers of the time. He mapped out the stars in relation to each other, instead of the traditional grid method used at the time (Smith 2013). He started out by studying the Society papers on natural history and matter theory, after he joined the Bath Philosophical Society in 1780. He also reached out to the experts of the time Joseph Priestley and John Mitchell on proper construction of astronomical telescopes. After he did his research, he started his…

Researches have located a truly colossal black hole at the heart of the recently discovered galaxy known as SAGE0536AGN. The oddly enormous supermassive black hole is approximately thirty times larger than it should be and astronomers cannot seem to figure out why. Researchers from U.K.’s Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire have recently discovered a new black hole that defies all logic. The galaxy, which houses this supermassive black hole, was discovered using NASA’s…

Dark matter makes up roughly 23% of the universe, and is thought to be the cause of its expansion. Dark matter was first proposed by Swiss astronomer, Fritz Zwicky when he noted that galaxies are flying away to fast. He noticed that galaxies are flying away to fast that they should fly apart, dissolve under Newtonian Laws of Motion. He thought the coma cluster may be saved if it were 100x more matter than you can see. Theres two possibilities left. Newton was wrong or something was missing.…

In the essay “The Fourth State of Matter” Jo Ann Beard delves into her life and mindset before, during, and after a shooting at the University of Iowa. Beard portrays herself as a woman immersed in her own world. Having recently gone through a break up, Beard lives with her three dogs, one of them paralyzed in the legs, and unwelcome squirrels that inhabited the empty upstairs bedroom of her house. She works for a physics magazine at the University of Iowa as a managing editor. The job doesn’t…