Jordan Crawford
AP Physics B
Standish
23 May 2014
George Smoot III was born on February 20, 1945 in Yukon, Florida. Smoot went to MIT and double majored in mathematics and physics, and then pursued a Ph. D in particle physics immediately after. Ever since Smoot has been at the University of California, Berkeley where he is now a professor. Smoot also has a cousin, Oliver R. Smoot that attended MIT and was a chairman for the American National Standards Institute.
Smoot began his career in 1971 as a research physicist at the University of California, Berkley in the Space Sciences Laboratory. He worked with Luis Alvarez on a High Altitude Particle Physics Experiment, mainly consisting on weather balloons. Which led to his joint appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Smoot became a physics professor at Berkeley in 1994.
George Smoot is also an actor. He made two cameo appearances on CBS’s “The Big Bang” where he gave lectures and attend conferences. Smoot has given two lectures at TED events discussing “The Design of the Universe” as well as “You are a Simulation & Physics Can Prove It.” In 2009, George Smoot became the first person to win the million dollar prize on, “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”
Smoot is the author to more than 200 science papers and his own book titled, “Wrinkles in Time.” The book focuses on Smoot’s discovery; the “seeds” the universe grew from and the journey it took him on, for 20 years, to find the “Holy Grail of Science.” The research within his book eventually lead to him winning the Nobel Prize and his book being reprinted with a quote from Stephen Hawking saying “the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time.”
George Smoot’s most significant discovery began in April of 1992...
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... is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
Planck, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), is a mission to provide answers to how the universe began, how it transformed, and how will it continue in our future. Planck’s goal is to measure the remnants of radiation that filled the universe, CMB, with even greater accuracy than the COBE satellite. Smoot Became involved with Planck since its inception in 1992, it held the Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite (COBRAS) that led to a more definitive examination of CMB.
George Smoot’s discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of CMB, has been accredited one of the most important scientific discoveries ever. His research supports the widely accepted theory of the beginnings of our universe and opens up new doors for research and understanding the patterns of our seemingly random universe.
Molina was born on March 19, 1943, in Mexico City. Molina was interested in science since a very young age that he created his own and personal chemistry lab in a bathroom at his house. Molina's aunt was a chemistry and figured out her nephew’s great interest in science. She was a key figure in his life because she helped him to perform chemistry experiments that weren't taught at his school. He completed his studies in Mexico and Germany before moving to the United States to achieve an advance degree in physical chemistry.
The origins of the super-massive black holes which concludes how they were formed and what caused them to form is an unsolved problem which is yet a mystery of astrophysics. ( Millis 2014)
R/s Hortense Smoot has no legs and she is in a wheelchair. R/s Ms. Smoot can bathe and dress herself but she can prepare her meals. R/s Ms. Smoot lives with her daughter, Celeste and she leaves Ms. Smoot at home at night by herself. R/s sometimes Ms. Smoot is home alone during the day. R/s Ms. Smoot looks like a zombie. R/s it appears that Ms. Smoot is not being taken of care. R/s the house has a reek smell. R/s in the past, Celeste use to smoke marijuana.
Hawking, Stephen. “Our Picture of the Universe.” Fields of Reading. 6th ed. Ed. Nancy R. Comely et al. New York: St. Martin’s, 2001. (565-574)
Stephen Hawking is an extraordinary being to say the least. Stephen is possibly the smartest person on the planet, and if he isn’t quite there he is extremely close. Hawking is a very interesting person between his family, being diagnosed, education, and many other things, including his research, he is definitely worth reading about. This paper will inform you of everything you need to know about Stephen William Hawking.
For over a hundred years now a battle has been raging over the origin of the Universe and man. Soldiers of Science have drawn the battle lines with each side using various scientific and non - scientific theories as their weapons.
Greene continues with his explanations of the special theory of relativity.Chapter 3: Of Warps and Ripples Green begins the chapter by describing "Newton's View of Gravity" and continues by discussing the incompatibility of Newtonian Gravity and Special Relativity. The author also talks about how Einstein discovered the link between acceleration and the warping of space and time. Greene also discuses the basic aspects of General Relativity. He later points out how the two theories of relativity effect black holes, the big bang, and the expansion of space.Chapter 4: Microscopic Weirdness This chapter describes, in detail, the workings of quantum mechanics.
An underlying theme present throughout the series is the possibility that our existence is not the only one. According to current theories in physics, it is entirely possible that our universe is just one of many universes f...
...onding research are amongst the biggest names in the scientific world. Einstein of course, who laid the foundations. Karl Schwarzschild, who was at the forefront on picking up where Einstein left - Frank Tipler, who devised one of the first models of a time machine; and inspired a generation – Kip Thorne who opened the possibilities of wormholes in the fabric of space-time – and Stephen Hawking, who has explicitly shown a repeated interest in the topic. Even then that’s just to name a few! In the coming chapters I will analyse their work, and investigating whether in principle it is realistically possible to build a working time machine, given our current state of technological and physical progress as a civilization.
Impey, Chris. How It Began: A Time-traveler's Guide to the Universe. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. 123+. Print.
In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote his paper on the special theory of relativity (Prosper). This theory has the reputation as being so exotic that few people can understand it. On the contrary, special relativity is simply a system of kinematics and dynamics, based on a set of postulates that is different from those of classical mec...
Stephen Hawking has been hailed as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein. Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, which as he likes to point out is the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Hawking originally studied at Oxford University in England studying physics even though he would have preferred math. He moved onto Cambridge University to work on his PhD in cosmology. Hawking's career has focused upon the cosmic entities known as black holes, and has extended to specialized areas such as quantum gravity, particle physics, and supersymmetry.
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this mans work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing.
This is probably the greatest discovery imaginable; however, the universe still seems to be a very controversial subject.