It is only with acknowledging your mistakes, and repairing them that you can make science evolve. A scientist should always stay modest and critique his own theories. Without Imagination, Newton would have never found the theory of gravity, when he saw an apple fall out of a tree, and wondered why the moon wasn’t also falling.
It is believed that the Universe was created between 10-20 billion years ago. One of the most stubbornly asked questions of all time is: How was the universe created? In the pass, a group of people believed that the universe had no beginning or end and was simply infinite. But because of the initiation of the Big Bang theory, this belief was no longer correct. The universe was forced to take on the properties of a finite phenomenon, possessing a history and a beginning.
Around 15 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred and it started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the big bang. What existed before this event is completely unknown can only be speculated upon. The Big Bang basically involved an explosion of space within itself unlike a normal explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The Big Bang then began laying the foundations for the universe. The first stars form 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, and reionized the Universe. After that, the first supernova exploded and spread nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, carbon, and iron through uranium throughout the Universe. A supernova is a the explosion of a star, it is the largest explosion which takes place in space, radiating as much energy as the sun is supposed to in its entire life span. The solar system then formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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...d signal prior to detection. Another special feature that COS contains is its maximised efficiency, which means every bounce of a light beam along its path leads to a loss in signal strength. COS has a single bounce when the beam is fed into the appropriate channel.
The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift) is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving comparative to the source of the wave. For example, if someone is standing in a street and an ambulance approaches with its siren screaming, the sound of the siren progressively increases in sound as it comes closer. Then, as it passes, the noise suddenly lowers noticeably. This is an example of the Doppler Effect: the change in the observed frequency of a wave when the source of the wave is moving to the spectator. The Doppler Effect occurs both in sound and electromagnetic waves, including light waves.
Throughout history there has always been discussions and theories as to how the universe came to be. Where did it come from? How did it happen? Was it through God that the universe was made? These philosophies have been discussed and rejected and new theories have been created. I will discuss three theories from our studies, Kalam’s Cosmological Argument, Aquinas’s Design Argument, and Paley’s Design Argument. In this article, I will discuss the arguments and what these arguments state as their belief. A common belief from these three theories is that the universe is not infinite, meaning that the universe was created and has a beginning date. Each believe that there was a God, deity, or master creator that created the universe for a reason. They also believe that
The Big Bang theory is a theory that states that the universe originated as a single mass, which subsequently exploded. The entire universe was once all in a hot and dense ball, but about 20 million years ago, it exploded. This explosion hurled material all over the place and all mater and space was created at that point in time. The gas that was hurled out cooled and became our stellar system. A red shift is a shift towards longer wavelengths of celestial objects. An example of this is the "Doppler shift." Doppler shift is what makes a car sound lower-pitched as it moves further away. As it turns out, a special version of this everyday life effect applies to light as well. If an astronomical object is moving away from the Earth, its light will be shifted to longer (red) wavelengths. This is significant because this theory indicates the speed of recession of galaxies and the distances between galaxies.
Our Solar System was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago during the Big Bang with the collapse of an interstellar body (Lammer et al., 2009). During these supernova explosions, the dusts and gases that were expelled were mixed and processed to form the planets of our system (Lammer et al., 2009, Nisbet and Sleep, 2001).
Have you ever wondered why a car is much louder coming towards you, than it is going away from you? Or, have you been baffled at how loud an ambulance siren is before it passes you, only for it to be much quieter going away from you? This trend has been dubbed the “Doppler Effect” and was named after proclaimed physicist Christian Doppler. Through years of schooling and many more years of teaching, Doppler was able to amass plenty of credibility in the field of science, and make countless achievements in the realm of physics.
People may say that mistakes just hold scientists back and provide obstacles. John Denker says, “scientists worked to avoid mistakes.” He says that scientists did not just make one mistake that led to a big discovery, but they invented their products little by little, trying to make it perfect. Mistakes may hold you back sometimes,
As humans mankind has always wondered where we have come from and what our purpose of life on earth is. Is there any other purpose other than to constantly reproduce amongst our species for survival? There are hundreds, possibly even thousands of stories, theories and ideas in where we came from. Some of mankind believes in different versions of religion, from Buddhism to Christianity. Others believe in that there is something out there but we as people haven’t found it yet, known as Agnosticism. Others are Atheist in that they don’t believe that there is a God. Some individuals believe we became what we are today from a big random cosmic explosion in space, known as the Big Bang Theory. Then there are others who believe that over a certain time period mankind has evolved from creatures for billions of year.
The Big Bang Theory is one of the most important, and most discussed topics in cosmology today. As such, it encompasses several smaller components that attempt to explain what happened in the moments after creation, and how the universe we know today came from such a fiery, chaotic universe in the wake of the Big Bang. One major component of the Big Bang theory is nucleosynthesis. We know that several stellar phenomena (including stellar fusion and various types of super novae) are responsible for the formation of all heavy elements up through Plutonium, however, after the advent of the Big Bang theory, we needed a way to explain what types of matter were created to form the earliest stars.!
It all started 13.7 billion years ago in the core of a black hole which contains large amounts of gravitational pressure which can squish very fine particles. After the big bang happened the universe eventually cooled and expanded. Every day the universe expands, so trying to find the end will be impossible. Our universe is similar to filling a balloon with air until expands, while keeping all of its contents inside.
In the beginning there was only darkness. For many millions of years this darkness remained. There were no stars, no sun, and no earth. But one day something very special happened. The darkness created light. It was a very small amount of light but it was just enough. The light became the husband of the dark. After a long while both the light and the dark became bored. The light began to insult the dark and the light replied with equally harsh insults. "You are not as beautiful as I!" said the light. "Ha! You are much uglier than I!" said the dark.
momentum transfer when air molecules collide. Our ‘subjective impression’ about the frequency of a sound is called pitch. High pitch has high vibration frequency, while low pitch has a low vibration frequency. A pure musical tone consists of a single pitch or frequency. However, most musical tones are “complex summations” of various pure frequencies - one characteristic frequency, called the fundamental, and a series of overtones or harmonics Younger people can usually hear pitches with frequencies from about 20 hertz (infrasonic) to 20,000 (ultrasonic) hertz. We can’t hear above 20,000 hertz or below 20 hertz (ultra and infrasonic waves).
The Big Bang, the alpha of existence for the building blocks of stars, happened approximately fourteen billion years ago. The elements produced by the big bang consisted of hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of lithium. Hydrogen and helium are the essential structure which build stars. Within these early stars, heavier elements were slowly formed through a process known as nucleosynthesis. Nucleosythesis is the process of creating new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons. As the stars expel their contents, be it going supernova, solar winds, or solar explosions, these heavier elements along with other “star stuff” are ejected into the interstellar medium where they will later be recycled into another star. This physical process of galactic recycling is how or solar system's mass came to contain 2% of these heavier elements.
The big bang theory is an attempt to explain how the world began. The big bang theory begins with what is called a “singularity.” This term is used to describe an area in space which defies all the known laws of physics. Singularities are thought to exist at the core of black holes. Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure. The pressure is thought to be so intense that matter is pressed together into an infinite amount of pressure. The dense hot mass of the singularity slowly expanded. This process is called inflation. As the singularity expanded the universe went from dense and hot to cool and expansive. Inflation is still continuing on today which means that the universe is continually expanding.
Most scientists agree that there was a beginning but there is a lot of speculation of how it (the universe) actually started. The much-celebrated Greek philosopher, Aristotle, denied the fact that there ever was a beginning. He and his associates believed in the eternal existence of the universe, they also tried to prove that the universe was static, and was unchanging in time. However, there is evidence, which suggests that the universe is changing with time.
waves are further divided into two groups or bands such as very low frequency (