Category Archives: Universe

The Cosmic Calendar

Posted on January 19, 2020 by maverickbennett

Did you know that the current age of the universe is 13.8 billion years? A useful instrument for visualizing the chronology and age of the universe is the cosmic calendar. With this cosmic calendar scale, the big bang takes place on January 1 at midnight and there are 37.8 million years per day. This isContinue reading “The Cosmic Calendar” Continue reading →

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How Small We Are

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Nick Whelan

I think that it’s absolutely fascinating to think and learn about the vast size and scale of the universe. Everybody’s been told that their problems aren’t important in the grand scheme of things and while getting a C on a test might ruin your day, your life probably isn’t going to change course because ofContinue reading “How Small We Are” Continue reading →

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How a Solar Eclipse Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Dan Pitagora

Up until the early 20th century, the laws that our universe abided by were best described by Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Newton’s principles still hold true for the most part, as they are the basis of many introductory classical mechanics classes today. Despite being able to model the laws of ourContinue reading “How a Solar Eclipse Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe” Continue reading →

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Unfathomably Insignificant

Posted on January 19, 2020 by echen00

It never fails to boggle my mind whenever I think about how vast and endless our universe truly is. Our cosmic address in the universe, beginning on Earth, to within our solar system, within the Milky Way Galaxy, within our Local Galactic Group, within the Virgo Supercluster, and within our Local Superclusters, is unbelievably microscopicContinue reading “Unfathomably Insignificant” Continue reading →

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And We’re Off, To the Past

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Jonah

Growing up, I fantasized time travel and if it would ever be possible. I watched cartoons and movies that made time travel seem so real. Of course, I got a little older and realized physical time travel would be a thing of the distant future, if it ever comes to fruition. I let the fantasyContinue reading “And We’re Off, To the Past” Continue reading →

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Tardigrades

Posted on April 29, 2019 by bobbyc

Tardigrades are the toughest animals that we have yet discovered, not due to their physical strength, but rather their incredible ability to survive. People praise cockroaches for their ability to survive levels of radiation that would be lethal to humans, but the real heroes are microscopic “water bears” called tardigrades. Tardigrades are extremophiles, or micro-organisms … Continue reading Tardigrades Continue reading →

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String theory – the other way of interpreting our universe

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Yihao Yan

The string theory is a very interesting idea that propose another totally different way of thinking what made up our universe. Although this theory is very arguable because it can never be tested in our labs so that a lot of physicist do not like this theory, but it indeed gives a very unique prospective … Continue reading String theory – the other way of interpreting our universe → Continue reading →

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Speghettification

Posted on April 27, 2019 by peytonbrown4560

With a recent picture of a blackhole becoming the newest internet sensation I thought it might be neat to talk about my favorite word, spaghettification. In class we’ve talked about tidal forces, that is the force differential between the close part and the far part to a gravitational source. On the small scale, such as … Continue reading Speghettification Continue reading →

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More on the Fermi Paradox

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Harrison Chen

For this blog post, I ventured onto YouTube to find a more detailed explanation of the Fermi Paradox. Although there we a video by celebrity scientist Bill Nye on YouTube, I ventured for a more scientific video done by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. The video introduced three categories of civilizations. A type one civilization … Continue reading More on the Fermi Paradox → Continue reading →

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The End of a Course, But The Start of a Passion!

Posted on April 27, 2019 by michaelfung1661

What a ride this class has been! The sheer amount of new topics and discoveries I learned about is ridiculous, but my favorite has definitely got to be regarding the unknowns and potentials for life in our universe, or even our own Solar System! Learning about worlds such as Europa and Titan, and the liquid … Continue reading The End of a Course, But The Start of a Passion! → Continue reading →

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