The Universe is amazing.
[header] Disclaimer: These are simply my own thoughts and my personal perception of The Universe.[/header]
[b]1.[/b] It started. [i]We don't know how, but it's here.[/i]
[b]2.[/b] It's constantly changing.
[b]3.[/b] Earth was created. [*1] [i]Most likely by dust, rocks, gases, etc, being pulled towards each other by gravitational forces (larger objects will attract the smaller objects, becoming larger and having even more of a stronger gravitational pull on smaller objects. Smaller objects also pull on the larger objects.) Eventually this creates a large, rock body.[/i]
[b]4.[/b] Stars work as the natural factories of the universe. Fusing atoms together to create different elements such as Helium, Carbon, Lead, Silicon, ETC.
[b]5.[/b] Stars will deplete there fuel source. (The fusion of hydrogen [i][*2][/i]) [i]they 'explode' if you will, pumping out created elements into the universe.[/i]
[b]6.[/b] These elements will be pulled by gravitational forces towards larger objects, helping them form.
[b]7.[/b] Chemical reactions will occur between elements. Creating molecules with properties unique to the parenting elements.
[b]8.[/b] These reactions continue. More complex molecules will form [*3] [i]Perhaps even a molecule able to self replicate?[/i]
[b]9.[/b] There are size limitations. [i]Nothing can be infinitely big and there has to be something that can not be broken down any further. (Atoms can be broken down into protons, neutrons and electrons. They can be broken down into Quarks and smaller particles, those can probably be broken down too). But they're might be a point where it cannot be broken down anymore, whether or not it's previous forms or itself are stable.[/i]
[b]10.[/b] If the above can occur and you reach the smallest point of division, there will still be an infinite amount of points within it.
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[*1]: By god/s or not, it doesn't effect the latter.
[*2]: Hydrogen is made of one negative subatomic particle, and one positive subatomic particle. A neutral total charge and the creation blocks for so many other elements, i find it beautiful.
[*3]: Perhaps life is just a series of complicated chemical reactions.
Also, i have been wondering about something that perhaps anyone keep on Chemistry or Physics could answer. When Beta Decay occurs in radioactive atoms, an electron is emitted from a neutron and transforms the neutron into a proton. Doesn't that mean that neutrons are just the result of a fusion between electrons and protons? That a neutron is made up of one proton and one electron?
Any questions or thoughts of you're own?
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[quote=Chat]
Oh I so agree, The universe..it facinates me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q[/quote]
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Your right,i do love the universe,when its possible to travel to another galaxy,im moving,this one isn't fascinating anymore
@asgilas: String theory is an incredibly ill-developed theory at the moment. It may provide some excellent ideas on the concepts of how things work, but unfortunately it doesn't really have a practical bases and is speculation at the moment... It can't ever really be tested because the concept is that strings or 'packets' of energy are so small it can't be detected.
I'm only 15 but have a passion for Physics, I'm graduating High School next year and going onto study Astrophysics and maybe Nuclear Physics at University. So i haven't gotten deep into learning at school and my work on radiation didn't really cover the fusion of sub-atomic particles on there own, rather the nuclei as a whole.
I do know a bit on string theory, but all theories are just ideas and concepts. Some are built more strongly then others and are supported completely by observations, some are not so well constructed.
The universe is me.
it full of mystery ;o
[quote=asgilas]ya, theres going to be a VERY high rate of suicides all over the planet... and actually, speaking of our solar system, nasa is thinking of making mars inhabitable by heating it up and using its forzen Co2 in both poles to make a thick, earth like atmosphere, of course, mars had lost it's atmopshere ions ago, because its just too small... thats what aventually will happen again.
EDIT: there are actually ways to travel to distant places, such as wormholes, but whats really fascinating is, that there are rumors among scientists, an element called 'element 115' which is rumored when destroying it, realses a wave called "gravity wave" which in theory can enable human kind to twist space for its own will. amazing stuff![/quote]
Unfortunately i cannot believe in (perhaps i just haven't looked into it enough) the concept of twisting 'reality'
[quote=asgilas]yep, that's what people dont usually get...
and we're claming that we're in the centre of the Universe just because we're a species with a down syndrome compared to life "out there".[/quote]
If you stop thinking about religion, 'souls', morals, time and look outside of all of that. You will find that life is almost certian to exist somewhere else in the universe, potentially even elsewhere in our solar system.
I wonder how many more changes religion will need to make if we discover life in space.
[quote=Acousmatic]Not really. Since we have a set radius that we can see to, which is in a circle, we are in the center of the universe we can see.
OT: The universe is a very fascinating place. We're able to see unfathomable distances with our technology, yet it's such a tiny, maybe infinite, fraction of the universe.[/quote]
The Universe is infinite in size, matter and energy in the universe, however, is not.
[quote=asgilas]a gram of anti matter will react with a kg of matter, only that matter will have left overs, just as it was a tenth of a second after the big bang.[/quote]
Oh how interesting! Is there a specific reason behind the 1000x reactant multiplier?
[quote=asgilas]exactly, if an extraterrestrial being is made up of "reverse elements" made out of antimatter. than yes its dangerous, very.[/quote]
But isn't that a misconception to say the anti-matter itself is dangerous? One gram of anti-matter will only react with one gram of matter. The dangerous part is the energy released in the destruction or fusing of these two particles.
[quote=asgilas]it doesnt reflect any rule of our chemistry, so in "theory" it is very possible. it could solve our resource issue forever... too bad were made out of matter.[/quote]
We are as dangerous to it as it is dangerous to us.
[quote=BlazingChees]Did you copy this from google,or from the heart?
P.S You use too much big words.
This is the internet,not a letter to the president[/quote]
This is from my brain, down my spinal cord, to my fingers and onto my keyboard. Across my local wireless network, through a larger network, into Mr.Basils servers, through another network, to your local network, transformed from electrical signals to photons for your viewing pleasure.
Yes, i wrote all of this.
@Travis: Considering that the time spent on this was approximately 0.00001192% of my life, I focus more time to dumping my waste.
[quote=0xnlbanditx0]The sun is[/quote]
WRong,the sun is the center of the solar system
not the milky way
[quote=SinlessDexx]We are in the center of the observable universe.[/quote]
The sun is
Did you copy this from google,or from the heart?
P.S You use too much big words.
This is the internet,not a letter to the president
[quote=asgilas]good one, its like saying a ball has a center on its surface, not possible.
(for example jerousalem is the center of the world)[/quote]
Perhaps he defined centre to be include a point, and a certain radius around that point. Observable means what we can see, and because light does not travel infinitely fast, then we do become the centre of our theoretically observable universe (Theory because, there are some spaces which will not have any light, thus be unobservable, which could still be inside of our theoretical radius of observation).
@asgilas: The idea of matter and antimatter in the same way as positive and negative charges is fascinating, it's a shame we can't actually observe reactions as of yet.
[quote=SinlessDexx]We are in the center of the observable universe.[/quote]
If the limitations to our ability to observe the universe are to a set radius, then indeed we are.
@above: If it didn't start, it was either forever here or nothing ever happened. Neither of those make logical sense to me.