Scientists have had many arguments on how the Earth is really shaped. Some say that the Earth was round rather than a flat plate. It came to mind on how the Earth was really shaped when there were eclipses on the moon. If the Earth were a flat disk, the shape of the moon would be stretched and arched. Also, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, thought that the Earth was stationary. He believed that the sun, the stars, and the moon orbited around the Earth. A Greek philosopher named Ptolemy made a model predicting the alignment of the galaxy, and the Christian church adopted his model.
Before Galileo and Newton came, most people believed Aristotle ideas about motion. He said that a body was at rest and only move if a force acted upon it, and that a heavy body should fall faster than light one. Galileo proved that those ideas were false. Newton used Galileo's experiment to form his law of motions. Aristotle believed that anybody would stay at rest if it were not driven by a force, but Newton believes that there is no unique way of rest. Besides their differences, Aristotle and Newton believed in absolute time. The speed of light was discovered by Christensen Roemer. He proved that light travels at a quick speed, and that you can measure that speed.
An American astronomer named Edwin Hubble showed the world that our galaxy is not the only galaxy out there. He calculated the distances to nine different galaxies. The Doppler Effect was established which is the relationship between wavelength and speed. Hubble observed other galaxies and their spectra. The discovery that the universe is expanding was the greatest revolution of the twentieth century. Additionally, Einstein introduced an antigravity force that said that space time had a bu...
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Albert Einstein, Galileo Galile, and Isaac Newton were the greatest men of all time. Einstein’s efforts for peace took him far. Galileo was responsible for the birth of modern science. It was his work that was to be genius of modern physics. Lastly, Newton was not that nice, but he was a powerful man. All these great scientists paved a way for our humankind.
Our human kind is thrilled to know how our universe was created. All these theories lack observational evidence. The earliest theoretical attempts to describe and explain the universe involved the idea that events and natural things were controlled by spirits. We have found the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events. Humans are still trying to come up with a theory, but when they find the answer, it would be the ultimate triumph.
Geniuses like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were not only smart, but they also devised new theories, solved mathematical mysteries, and pioneered new gadgets.
Sir Isaac Newton made an enormous amount of contributions to the world of physics. He invented the reflecting telescope, proposed new theories of light and color, discovered calculus, developed the three laws of motion, and devised the law of universal gravitation. His greatest contribution to physics was the development of the three laws of motion. The first law was called the law of inertia; this law stated that, “Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.” The second law is called the law of acceleration; this law stated that, “Force is equal to the chan...
Isaac Newton, (1642-1727) was an English scientist and statesman. Although his views were thought to contradict the bible he was the only man of these three which proved his views to be true. He discovered gravity and the laws of motion. He stated that, 'every particle in the universe is attracted to every other particle by a force that is directly related to the product of their masses and inversely related to the squares of the distance between them.
The first record of the movement of the planets was produced by Nicolaus Copernicus. He proposed that the earth was the center of everything, which the term is called geocentric. Kepler challenged the theory that the sun was the center of the earth and proposed that the sun was the center of everything; this term is referred to as heliocentric. Kepler’s heliocentric theory was accepted by most people and is accepted in today’s society. One of Kepler’s friends was a famous person named Galileo. Galileo is known for improving the design and the magnification of the telescope. With improvement of the telescope Galileo could describe the craters of the moon and the moons of Jupiter. Galileo also created the number for acceleration of all free falling objects as 9.8 meters per second. Galileo’s and Kepler’s theories were not approved by all people. Their theories contradicted verses in the bible, so the protestant church was extremely skeptical of both Galileo and Kepler’s
For over a hundred years now a battle has been raging over the origin of the Universe and man. Soldiers of Science have drawn the battle lines with each side using various scientific and non - scientific theories as their weapons.
The drug problem in the U.S. and around the world is an important issue and seems to be a difficult problem to tackle across the board. The inflow of drugs has become one of the largest growths in transnational crime operations; illicit drug use in the United States makes it very difficult for nation states police and customs forces to get a handle on the issues. War on drugs, drug trafficking has long been an issue for the United States. There has been a proclamation of “war on drugs” for the past 44 years.
In 1905 Einstein published the Annus Mirabilis papers. These papers explained each of his four main theories; the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, Special Relativity and Matter energy-equivalence. These four works created the foundation for modern day physics and brought a new view to space, time and matter. Brownian motion is the random movement of small particles in either a gas or a liquid caused by collisions with the particles around them. Albert Einstein came up with mathematical equations that allowed him to determine the exact size of atoms. With these equations Einstein essentially provided the first substantial evidence that atoms actually do exist. Einstein’s second paper was on the photoelectric effect. Until Einstein, the photoelectric effect went unsolved. Einstein concluded that when a photon hits a metal surface, the photoelectrons on the metals surface are emitted as certain light frequencies. Thus proving that light has quanta meaning it has packets of energy. This has brought huge technological advancements and has a lot to do with many things that surround us today. Old television used video camera tubes that required the photoelectric effect to charge the screen and transform the image...
The Big Bang Theory is one of the most important, and most discussed topics in cosmology today. As such, it encompasses several smaller components that attempt to explain what happened in the moments after creation, and how the universe we know today came from such a fiery, chaotic universe in the wake of the Big Bang. One major component of the Big Bang theory is nucleosynthesis. We know that several stellar phenomena (including stellar fusion and various types of super novae) are responsible for the formation of all heavy elements up through Plutonium, however, after the advent of the Big Bang theory, we needed a way to explain what types of matter were created to form the earliest stars.!
For as long as long as history has been recorded there has been interest in how the universe came to be. The science community seems to agree that the big bang was what created the universe, but there are many conflicting arguments surrounding what existed before the big bang and what initiated it. While there are nearly infinite responses to this question, there are only two paths one can take when answering it; either something existed prior to the big bang or the entire universe came from nothing. Lawrence M. Krauss, acclaimed physicist and cosmologist, uses his understanding of science in his book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing, to elucidate that it is logical for something to come from nothing. Krauss recognizes that much of the world attributes the creation to God and quotes Steven Weinberg in saying that “science does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to believe in God” (183). Using the big bang theory, the discovery of both dark matter and energy, and the idea that many features of the universe do come from nothing Krauss makes a convincing argument that the universe did indeed come about with no preexistence.
Powerful mythologies are normative, as Mircea Eliade described, defining for their societies how the world may be ordered. Myths provide the living backdrop on which people may act. In the Christian societies of Europe and America the “origin myth” that defines the divine order that Christians should follow is laid out largely in Genesis, and the worldview expounded within it in some sense provides the baseline from which “scientific” alternatives must deviate, at least within the Europe and America.
Another important individual who drove history was the Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. Galileo discovered something so important that it changed the selfish perspective that humans were the center of the universe and led to the growth of human knowledge. Utilizing mathematics and a telescope he had developed, Galileo observed that the planets revolved around the sun and not the Earth. This was a significant discovery because not only did it contradict what the church had taught, it also showed that the universe was not what it seemed. With this truth uncovered, many people began to fascinate over the universe. This triggered people to begin studying space extensively and eventually lead to present day space exploration. Galileo also left a lasting impression upon many great minds, such as Sir Isaac Newton, who used Galileo's research and theories to further his own studies such as the physical laws, and their properties.
Sir Isaac Newton is the man well known for his discoveries around the term, Motion. He came up with three basic ideas, called Newton’s three laws of motion.
The scientist Aristotle (384-322 BCE) developed many important theories which modern day physics is based upon. One of these theories is Aristotle’s theory of motion. Through his research Aristotle attempted to provide explanations as to how objects in our universe moved. While many of his theories have been since proven to be inaccurate, they provided a basis for future theories which eventually lead to our present day understanding of motion.
Science even proves that there was a divine creator present when the world was first designed and when life first appeared on earth.
Since the dawn of intelligent man, humanity has speculated about the origins of the universe.