As I lay on the brown corduroy sofa from the 8o’s I look up at the ceiling, listening to Tyler practice the guitar in his bedroom down the hall. A deep sigh escapes my mouth and I roll off the couch, cringing as I hit the floor. “Why the fuck did I do that?” I groan quietly as I lay on the ground, the rough carpet pressing into my skin. “Are you okay?” A grin spreads across my face as I look up and see Miles standing in the doorway. His once dark blue jeans are now faded with a hole starting to form in the right knee and his grey t-shirt making him look tanner than he really is. Deep blond hair, falling just past his ears and blue eyes that could melt the heart of any one, not that he’d notice. “Hun, I’m laying face down on the floor,” I sigh. He just shakes his head, walking over to my limp body, sprawled across the carpet and he extends his hands to me. “It’s about time,” I joke, “I’ve been stuck here for hours.” …show more content…
Miles pulls me to my feet. “That is interesting. Did you know that time is just a concept people made up so they could try and manage their lives in the most efficient,” I use air quotes when I say, “efficient,” “way but all they did is give themselves one more thing to stress out about. It sucks that we’re in the collective them,” I say, using air quotes again when I say,
For the Science Reader project, I read Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili. Interested in time travel and the secrets of space, I chose this book with hopes of better understanding our universe.
This book is more than just a series of explanations of current astronomical theories and research tools, however. Dr. Tyson injects a great deal of historical perspective as well as his own personality and humor throughout the narrative, which is what really makes the difference between text that would otherwise be just informative and a book that is engaging and entertaining to read. For example, when discussing how astronomers use the different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, he writes, "Superman, with his x-ray vision, has no special advantage over modern-day scientists
Super massive black holes are enormous black holes which have a mass equivalent to large numbers of solar masses. A black hole is called a super massive black hole when a normal "galactic nuclei black hole" has a mass range between 0.1 million to 10 million solar masses. (Cardiff University 2014). It is believed that one solar mass is equal the mass of the sun, so that would make a super-massive black hole very large compared to the sun. Super-massive black holes having a large mass would make its gravity incredibly limitless, this would mean that even a star which is many light years away would be impelled by the super-massive black hole. (Millis 2014)
A Black Hole is defined as an object in space that is so compact, that has a gravitational pull so powerful, not even light can escape its pull. In most cases Black Holes are formed when a massive star (much larger than our own) undergoes a supernova explosion. When this happens, the star may collapse on its own gravitational pull, thus resulting in a an object with infinitely large density and zero volume. As a result, the escape velocity (the speed required to escape the gravitational pull) becomes even greater than the speed of light, and because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, nothing can escape a black hole.
"Sixty minutes goes by in the blink of an eye. It's barely enough time to accomplish much
Black Holes The term black hole was first used in 1969 by the American scientist
Miles brushed it off. ‘You’ve been traveling almost a week now. That’ll tucker anybody out. A full belly, nice soak and a good night’s sleep will cure what ails you,” he stated, snapping the horses into a trot. “Ready to see your new home?” he asked, tilting his hat back on his head with a smile.
Every day we look into the night sky, wondering and dreaming what lies beyond our galaxy. Within our galaxy alone, there are millions upon millions of stars. This may be why it interests us to learn about all that we cannot see. Humans have known the existence of stars since they have had eyes, and see them as white glowing specks in the sky. The mystery lies beyond the white glowing specks we see but, in the things we cannot see in the night sky such as black holes.
TIme” learns to not rely on other people for things that she needs to do. Now, knowing
Geologist John Mitchell is credited with first devising the idea of a black hole. He said that if some force could compress the sun down to an small enough size, it would have a gravitational field so strong, that one would need to be going faster than the speed of light to escape it (UTFC). All objects in the universe have what is called a schwarzschild radius. An object’s schwarzschild radius is the radius that an object would have to be compressed into in order to have an escape velocity greater than that of the speed of light, or a black hole. (VSBH). Using the earth as an example, if the entire earth was compressed to the size of a peanut, it would become a black hole (VSBH). Earth would then have a gravitational field so strong that not even light could escape it. However there is no known force that can compress earth down to such a small size.
Throughout the ages, outstanding physicists, to the movies, to some of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, have pondered the idea of time-travel. The thought of actually being able to travel to another time or universe has long since enthralled, enveloped, and overwhelmed some of the greatest minds in the history of physics. No one person can actually prove any of their theories, but a few actually make sense. Meaning that they do not violate the laws of physics. One of the main theories suggested, are wormholes. Wormholes are considered to connect two regions of flat space-time, two universes, or two parts of the same universe. There is a lot of theoretical evidence that wormholes exist, with an equal amount of evidence that they do not exist. However, no matter what one’s belief is, the existence of wormholes still makes you wonder…
That fat guy, convinced he was a pure rock god, might’ve had me staring at my girlfriend’s laptop screen in some joyous form of bewilderment, but it was truly about feeling something deeper. The other night, on my way home from grocery shopping, I drove by our old apartment. The entire block was dark except for one lonely shaft of light emanating from the bedroom window I once shared with someone I loved very much. A room I spent many wonderful days in, a room I’ve spent many sleepiness nights longing for. Sometimes I’ll even wake up thinking I’m there again, only to find myself in the here and now. I tried to imagine who would be up at three o'clock in the morning and what the hell they might be doing. Maybe they were getting up for some unusual shift change at work, maybe they just couldn’t sleep, or maybe they were watching a YouTube video of some fat teenager acting a fool, and creating a moment in time they’ll never
The Singularity is an event being predicted by many of the world’s top scientists, an event where AI’s (Artificial Intelligences) progress to the point of greater than human intelligence and, through technology, revolutionize society.
Black holes are the result of the death of a massive star, leaving behind a dense remnant core that eventually collapses to create a gravitational force so strong that nothing, including light, can escape the force. The theory that black holes existed started back in the early 1900s and since then astronomers and scientists have been trying to get a better understanding of them. This phenomenon has been a working progress for astronomers and scientists for many years and as we develop a better understanding of our solar system, the more likely it is to make a significant discovery that can answer some of the most difficult questions about our incredible galaxy and solar system. The more information we are able to acquire about our universe, the more questions we might be able to answer about our existence. With advancements in technology we may be able to see some significant discoveries and insights into the world of black holes.
Oh Sh*t! The door slams shut in my face, and suddenly I am stuck in a tight, dark room, where I can’t even move my arms to be able to scratch my nose. It feels as if I have been buried alive, as if I am stuck in a coffin. Every second goes by painfully, seconds feel like hours, and minute’s feel like days.