astronomy completely blows my mind. Concepts that I never imagined were within the realm of scientific human understanding are in my text book. they should title it "incredible secrets of the universe," instead of just "universe."
I know EXACTLY how you feel. I have Astronomy tonight, and everytime I read the book, I'm just like, blown away.
Did you know the universe is expanding? Expanding into what?! And how can Astronomers be so cool and calm and not just, brain fried all the time? It's amazing. It's like they have to stop questioning, otherwise they'll explode.
it seems space itself is expanding...my conception of it is that space itself doesn't seem to exist, but the forces (namely gravity) that act upon "space" to bend it and whatnot create our sense of it. so I think of it at the forces are expanding. but that's not the crazy part, when you get into how that bending of space curves spacetime (4th dimension) into wormholes, let me know because we are going to have CRAZY talks. I love that you're taking it. heres what really trips me out...time can be bent and/or stretched out by speed. so pretty much it doesn't exist either, or is only relative to a single observer. Ah!
i know what you mean. i took astronomy with mr. dimaggio, and then i'm taking it this semester. the universe is literally beyond the realm of human thought. we're so small and insignificant in our universe that we simply can't help but be baffled by the extremities to which the universe expands. and just think, we only know as far as we can see, and we're constantly coming up with newer, bigger ways of seeing the universe. and as for time travel, wormholes, and lightspeed, they are just insane concepts that i can never fully grasp. but just one question: when you break the aqua barrier, you get an aqua boom. when you break the sound barrier, you get a sonic boom. what happens when you go faster than the speed of light?
an aqua boom is just when something goes faster than the speed of waves in water. pretty much, almost anything can create an aqua boom. ducks to it when they move across the water. basically, if you make a wake instead of concentric circles, you're doing it. that's what my astronomy professor told me anyway.
it's "theoretically impossible" to go faster than the speed of light because the photons have zero mass. aka we haven't found anything else with zero mass yet to test that with
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Did you know the universe is expanding? Expanding into what?! And how can Astronomers be so cool and calm and not just, brain fried all the time? It's amazing. It's like they have to stop questioning, otherwise they'll explode.
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the universe is literally beyond the realm of human thought. we're so small and insignificant in our universe that we simply can't help but be baffled by the extremities to which the universe expands.
and just think, we only know as far as we can see, and we're constantly coming up with newer, bigger ways of seeing the universe.
and as for time travel, wormholes, and lightspeed, they are just insane concepts that i can never fully grasp.
but just one question:
when you break the aqua barrier, you get an aqua boom.
when you break the sound barrier, you get a sonic boom.
what happens when you go faster than the speed of light?
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basically, if you make a wake instead of concentric circles, you're doing it.
that's what my astronomy professor told me anyway.
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