They’re all in the same plane.They’re all going around in direction. . . . It’s perfect,you know. It’s gorgeous. It’s almost uncanny.
-Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy
describing the solar system.
Being a 12th grader, you really don't get time to read books other than the normal books prescribed specially for IIT-JEE. But hey, I do enjoy writing. And I have been thinking about writing things and articles related to Science and Technology and other mysteries of this universe! There is so much about this Universe that..I don't know how to describe this..but there are so many things happening at the same time in this big big ever expanding universe of ours that we never know what might happen as you reach the end of this sentence.
What really got me interested in the cosmos so much was the fact that it is filled with things yet to be explored. Events over which scientists, cosmologists, astrophysicists have turned their days into nights and still don't know the perfect cause for them. The real reason is just that I am a very curious girl! ;)
One of the things that really interest me is the fact that, this universe just literally sprung out of nowhere (literally).
Here's an excerpt from Bill Bryson's A short history of Nearly Everything which will give a teensy bit of an idea of what 'nothing' really means :
"NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. It is just way too small.
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least.
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can’t) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe. "
Yes! That is exactly what springing out of nothing means! Interesting, ain't it?
And now, the Universe just seems to be marching on and on, giving us new surprises each day.
And if you are having a bad day, here's a tiny bit of pure motivation and happiness :
It's said that the universe doesn't have a specific center as such, which means that you could be standing anywhere, and take that as the center of the universe! Hey Look! YOU are the center of the Universe! Feeling Happy yet?
-Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy
describing the solar system.
Being a 12th grader, you really don't get time to read books other than the normal books prescribed specially for IIT-JEE. But hey, I do enjoy writing. And I have been thinking about writing things and articles related to Science and Technology and other mysteries of this universe! There is so much about this Universe that..I don't know how to describe this..but there are so many things happening at the same time in this big big ever expanding universe of ours that we never know what might happen as you reach the end of this sentence.
What really got me interested in the cosmos so much was the fact that it is filled with things yet to be explored. Events over which scientists, cosmologists, astrophysicists have turned their days into nights and still don't know the perfect cause for them. The real reason is just that I am a very curious girl! ;)
One of the things that really interest me is the fact that, this universe just literally sprung out of nowhere (literally).
Here's an excerpt from Bill Bryson's A short history of Nearly Everything which will give a teensy bit of an idea of what 'nothing' really means :
"NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. It is just way too small.
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least.
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can’t) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe. "
Yes! That is exactly what springing out of nothing means! Interesting, ain't it?
And now, the Universe just seems to be marching on and on, giving us new surprises each day.
And if you are having a bad day, here's a tiny bit of pure motivation and happiness :
It's said that the universe doesn't have a specific center as such, which means that you could be standing anywhere, and take that as the center of the universe! Hey Look! YOU are the center of the Universe! Feeling Happy yet?
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