The world's biggest particle accelerator

I think that this machine is one of the most ingenious and crazy thing I have ever seen. It is a particle accelerator which basically does exactly what you would think it would do. It accelerates particles to tremendous speeds so they can eventually make them clash to have a mini reproduction of the big bang. This may sound crazy but with this kind of complicated technology I think anything is possible. This is considered to be the most complicated and biggest science experiment ever. It is costing the world about 8 billion dollars and it locate in the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.What it does is it accelerates particles using magnets that propel them around a 17 mile long tube that it 100 meters under the ground. The particle, after several months, would be accelerated to 99.9% the speed of light, and then clashed with the other particle to recreate the big bang for a fraction of a second. They have already tried to start the acceleration but after one month the system crashed and they had to fix it and now start over. 99.9% the speed of light is an incredible speed, to put it in perspective, the particles will travel around the 17 mile long tube about 11,000 times a second, which is uncomprehendable because to see something move at that speed, you would’ve be able to see it at all. The collision will hopefully show us how the big bang started and it will actually create mini black holes which will disappear right away. The whole collision process is about a second long and takes several months to create. The collision will actually produce about 10 trillion electron volts, which is a s***t load of energy. I am actually excited to see what the results of this experiment are going to bring, and to maybe discover the origin of the universe.

Space volcanoes!!

We all know about volcanoes on earth, they are giant mountains that erupt at certain points in time to let out lava that destroys anything in its path. The reason lava destroys everything in its path is because it can go up to 1250 degrees Celsius, which is enough to burn anything on the surface of the earth. Volcanoes erupt because the magma ( molten rock) which lies under them, creates too much pressure and at one point, after storing up all that energy, it erupt and the magma comes out of the volcanoes. But volcanoes aren’t just on earth, and this makes sense considering that every planet has a molten hot core that needs to come out at some point to relieve all the pressure. Well we haven’t seen anything yet. The biggest volcanoes in our solar system is located on mars. It is called Olympus Mons, which is named after mount Olympus where the Greek gods reside. It is humongous, it is 14 miles tall (three times as tall as Mt.Everest, and 342 miles across (about half of Spain). So as you can imagine is tremendously huge. The last time it erupted was about 40 million years ago, and if it were to erupt again, it would be one of the most massive explosions ever seen by man. But luckily we live on earth where volcanoes like that aren’t even close to existence. But I hope one day we will see Olympus Mon erupt, the biggest volcano I our solar system.

Astronauts

I think that astronauts are kick ass people who risk their lives whenever they go on a mission. But at the same time it’s the coolest thing ever, and I hope that one day I will get to go into space. The training to become an astronaut takes about 10-20 years depending on how good you are and its one of the most difficult training on the planet. They train under harsh environments so they will be able to take anything that space throws at them and you better like roller coasters because you get that feeling the whole time if you’re an astronaut. Out of 10s of thousands of men and women that try out, only a 100 are chosen to become astronauts. You need to be extremely smart and be very fit, it’s extremely hard.When you’re in space it is an imaginable and sensational experience. If you’re in the vastness of space you float there and are able to do whatever you want and if you’re on a smaller planet you can jump 20 feet easily depending on which planet you are. When astronauts are in space, they actually experience the roller coaster feeling a 100% of the time, even if they're in the shuttle, because in the vastness of space you are actually always falling at enormous speeds, so you always have that feeling but after a while they get used to it and forget about it. But whatever the challenges may be I hope to one day go into space and be able to float around and see earth as a whole.

Theory of evolution

The theory of evolution is a very controversial thing in our society. Most religions deny that it ever happened that way, and scientists have proven the theory. I agree with the scientist because they have facts and proof of the evolution of man. We have skeletons of primitive people and these bones have been chemically proven to be our ancestors.

I believe that the way religion sees it, is completely ignorant. I don’t understand how people still deny evolution even though we have cold hard facts that it’s true. Religion says that god just poofed us here but I strongly disagree with that.

The main theory of evolution is that we have evolved from primates or monkeys. Some scientist say that over millions of years, our brains started to grow and we finally evolved into what we are today. Primate had needs and evolution enabled them to accommodate to what they needed and that’s how we came to be. It took a long time but we eventually evolved into beings with large brains and an incredible amount of brain power. Thus we became the dominant species of the planet earth. It has been proven that we are a lot like primates and they’re actually the only other animals to have thumbs besides us. Primates can actually be very smart, some have even learned to use sign language.

Other scientists think that we evolved from fish. They say that eventually a type of fish didn’t need gills anymore and eventually evolved into humans. But I believe the primate one more because primates are very similar to us and they're the only animal that have that much in common with us.

The moon!

What is the moon? People have been asking that question for thousands of years, and it’s only recently that we've been able to unmask it. From the moon landing on July 20th 1969 up until today we have been trying to fully understand the moon. We now know a lot about the moon and the effects that it has on us today. We know that the moon is 240,000 miles away and that the moon actually controls the tides on the earth, which makes sense because the moon has a gravitational pull too. The moon was created when a huge asteroid hit earth and a chunk of earth broke off but stayed within the gravitational pull of earth and the chunk of rock ultimately formed our moon. Some people think that the moon landing was a fake, and there is actual evidence to prove that but there is also a great deal of evidence to show that we did land on the moon, but we will probably never know for sure. All we know it that the moon has a great effect on the world we live in and has inspired people throughout time. Maybe one day we will have the technology and resources to be able to create a civilization that lives on the moon.

EarthS???

How many earths are out there? If there are multiple can there exist other life forms on them?

People have been asking these questions for thousands of years, but now some evidence has been shown that there might actually be other earths. Scientists have been studying this for many years and have concluded that in our galaxy there actually is billions of other earth like planets that each have a sun like ours. These earth like planets might actually have water and an atmosphere, which would support life. These billions of other earths could have intelligent life forms. Scientists actually suggest that there has been many civilizations before ours and that all these earths might have civilizations now.

But the question that many people ask is, how come we haven’t seen any aliens then? Well I think that’s a stupid question because the closest star to our solar system is 4.37 light years away, which in the speeds that we can travel at, it could take thousands, even millions of years to reach it. So if we can’t, why could other life forms be able to come so close to our planet if it would take so long to get here, and it’s impossible for something to move at the speed of light, so it would take a long time to get here. The earth like planets are a lot further than the closest sun so im not surprised that any aliens haven’t come to see us, because we haven’t gone anywhere to see other aliens, so how would they be able to if we couldn’t. But hopefully one day we'll know the truth and see if there actually is life on other earth like planets, and maybe in the future we could migrate to one if our becomes to inhabitable by pollution.

The smallest thing ever!!!!

Atoms are the smallest things that we can imagine, and they are the building blocks of everything we know and love. The range of its mass is 1.67 × 10−27 to 4.52 × 10−25 kg, that’s extremely small. Things we think are solid actually aren’t because atoms are mostly empty space, they are a condensed piece of matter in the middle and electrons float around it, but it is mostly empty space. So solid things aren’t actually solid at the atomic level, and atoms are in constant movement, they are always vibrating and colliding with one another. The never ending movement of atoms is what gives them the ability to make objects seem solid, and lets say that we could stop the movement of atoms completely on an object, then in theory you would be able to go right through the object because the atoms aren’t colliding and moving so you would be able to literally push them apart and go through any object, but to attain that we would need to be able to produce "absolute zero" which is zero Kelvin and -273 degrees Celsius, and if we were able to reach that temperature, atoms would stop to move, but its practically impossible and we’ve only come 99.9% of that. The atoms mass is mostly concentrated at the center which is made up of protons and neutrons, which are positive and negative respectively. The outer part of the atom is composed of electrons which are negative and located in the electron cloud. The nucleus or center of the atom is relatively small compared to the rest of it, if a marble was a nucleus then an entire football field would be the atom. So are the smallest things we know and make up everything we know.