Application and Closure...

Now I will magically mix together all we've learned about physics from Dr.'s Tyson and Goldsmith's Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution into this one final post, ready? Let's go.

In my very first post 3 months ago, I told of how compact the universe was at the beginning and everything there, "The universe was hot enough for photons to spontaneously convert their energy into matter-antimatter particle pairs, which immediately thereafter annihilated with each other, returning their energy back into photons" (Tyson and Goldsmith 26). The doctors go on to explain how there was an imbalance of matter over antimatter in this time. Once the early universe had expanded enough, the final pairs of matter and antimatter ceased to exist, leaving the small leftover matter alone in a sea of photons where they transformed into the very first atomic particles(Tyson and Goldsmith 26)

For those of you who think the universe is a desolate wasteland, look up

Once all 4 major forces of nature(Gravity, electromagnetic, and weak and strong nuclear forces, not gonna go into this) had been distinguished, scientist can use Einstein's theory of relativity to calculate energy, this works because of the abundant amount gamma radiation in the early universe to contain enough energy to be calculated with this equation (Tyson and Goldsmith 37).

As the universe expands, everything that once fit onto a pin head, energy, radiation, and all matter expands into the universe. This weakened the gamma radiation into non-lethal forms of electro-magnetic radiation, which is why we are still alive right now.(Tyson and Goldsmith 54)

Look at that handsome devil doing science

I hope you all found these posts informative and humorous? As it took me 4 months to understand 4 chapters enough to write posts on them, I have yet to finish this book, but am looking forward to the insights provided. (Only about 1/5 of the way in, long way to go). Thanks to all of you who put up with my odd topic and read through all of these posts. Remember to keep questioning things and not let popular opinion get the best of your ideas.

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Tyson, Neil DeGrasse and Goldsmith, Donald. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. Norton & co. Inc.(USA)2005, reissued 2014. Print