Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Universe in a Nutshell 54321-9
5Comments
  • Anthropics reffered to in cosmology and phsyics.
  • Cosmotoligists see more when they hear directions.
  • Cosmoligists identify the location of a star by lattitude longitude and height(above sea level).
  • As the universe expands, it takes energy from the gravitational field to create more matter.
  • The universe is "inflating"
4Questions
  • Why do scientists say histories plurally?
  • Have scientists yet discovered the 4th dimension?
  • Even though not mentioned, how would inertia affect the field?
  • What is the universe "inflating" with?
3Vocab
  • Cosmology: study of the universe and its totality
  • Implement: to provide instruments or means of expression for
  • subset: a set each of whose elements is an element of an inclusive set
2Literary Devices
  • Metaphor: "histories of the universe went off to infinity like a saddle".
  • Simile ?: "all the histories of the universe in imaginary time are closed surfaces like that of the Earth".
1Summarizing Sentence
  • This section is about the explanations of dimensions in the universe and why things are the way they are.`