Introduction Our human nature is to question and seek truth about everything in this world. For many centuries the origin of human kind was not a debated topic and all believed that the creation story of genesis where God’s hands over a six-day period created all that we know. This common knowledge was challenged in 1755 by a German Philosopher named Immanuel Kant (Macpherson‚ 1911) He was known as the central figure of modern philosophy and created the theory that the earth was much older then
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“This is a man’s world‚ but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman” (Brown). This iconic song from James Brown is especially true in the field of astronomy as Jocelyn Bell is one of the very few women within its field accredited for making a significant contribution to its study. On top of this there are not too many contributions being made to astronomy in the 21st century‚ however‚ Jocelyn Bell is one of a select few who have made a modern day contribution to the field. Jocelyn Bell discovered
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The Apollo Missions were launched by NASA between 1961 and 1975. The missions collected much scientific data that helped us understand more about space and especially the moon. In many of the manned and unmanned missions collected many rock samples. In this certain study they found that the moon had many magma rocks on the moon. This fact surprised many scientists because space is very cold (as we all know) and magma rocks are formed from extreme heat or pressure. The magma rocks were only found
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‘An accidental universe is as likely as a created one.’ Discuss Stephen Hawking‚ one of the World’s leading scientists‚ released a new book in 2010 called‚ ‘The Grand Design.’ He and his co-author‚ Leonard Mlodinow‚ stated that‚ ‘you don’t need God to create the universe because the laws of gravity and a certain version of quantum physics suffice to make it inevitable that the universe will create itself‚ out of nothing‚ in an infinite variety of forms; and given an infinite variety of forms‚ a
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The evolution of the early universe was the aftermath of the big bang. The early stages of the universe evolved which lead to the creation of matter and the separation of what is now known as the four fundamental particles of the universe. The creation of matter in the early universe was aided by the four fundamental forces‚ the strong force‚ the weak force‚ the electromagnetic force and the force of gravity. The standard model includes the three of the four fundamental forces excluding gravity
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The Big Bang Theory is believed to be the most probable and reasonable explanation to how the universe was created‚ is a widely discussed topic among cosmologists and astrophysicists. The Big Bang theory is about an event that explains the origins of the universe. It relates heavily to the sciences of cosmology and astrophysics. It is a widely accepted theory among people all across the world‚ and is also a widely discussed topic that has not been entirely explained yet. Many are still left
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Lesson 1: Our Solar System What makes up our solar system? When we think of the solar system most of us think of eight planets orbiting around the sun. However‚ the solar system is a lot more complicated‚ larger and exciting than this simple description. The solar system is a gravitationally bound system with all the objects in this system revolving around the sun. The eight planets revolving around the sun are: Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupitar‚ Saturn‚ Neputune‚ Uranus and Pluto. However‚ the
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Good morning 10F and Dr Guppy‚ I will be speaking about an astronomical phenomenon called black holes. A black hole is an area of space-time. Rather‚ it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small region it is also the last evolutionary stage in the lifetimes of vast stars. This makes the black hole invisible to the rest of the universe‚ hence the word "black". A star‚ about 20 times the mass of the sun may produce a black hole at the end of its life. A black hole is formed by nuclear reactions
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Most scientists think that our solar system was made from a nearby star‚ called the supernova. These scientists believe that the explosion of the supernova squeezed a nearby cloud of dust‚ causing it to collapse. When the gravity gathered the dust together‚ it formed something called a solar nebula. Soon‚ the cloud became hotter‚ a disk of gas surrounding it. Molecules gathered in a clump as the disk got smaller. Scientists believe in this theory using technology. They used this technology to observe
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TSEDAL NEELEY THOMAS J. DELONG Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc. (A) Greg James‚ a global manager at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc. (Sun)‚ slumped on the edge of his bed in the company’s corporate flat in Paris. He struggled to even move after only three hours of sleep. James had embarked on this unexpected trip from Sun’s Santa Clara‚ California‚ headquarters six days earlier. With only a few hours’ notice‚ he had set out to meet with his entire 45-member customer implementation
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