The origin of my love for Space.

From Louis Warren:

"Well, I'm going to ask you the most common question I get about my love for Video Editing...what turned you on to the science of space?"
July 20, 2010

I can actually remember the specific moment very distinctly, I was in the sixth grade, in the Ingenuity Project at Robert Poole Middle School, the year was 1999-2000. Our science teacher was named Mr. Fireside and he began a lesson about the Solar System. I remember being so intrigued and fascinated since this was the first real learning experience I had about space, these topics were never encouraged at home and I didn't encounter them much at school beforehand. To this day, I can remember parts of his lesson word for word, especially as he moved from talking about the planets to the Big Bang. One thing I can recall making this experience so special is that this was the first time I had seen a DVD used in the classroom, and this was around the time I began questioning religion and creation and the big bang just really turned me on to QUESTION EVERYTHING. I went to high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute where I studied Engineering. I loved Engineering, but when we got into Physics, I got the feeling all over again when I started learning about space. I joined the Physics club, competed in the Physics Olympics at the University of Maryland and took AP Physics my senior year.
Aside from schooling, I have always asked questions about our existence. At four years old, I recall wondering if everything was someone's thoughts or dreams or if perhaps we were in some way their memories as they flipped through a photo album. This was because at the time I would have frequent recurring dreams and I thought that maybe I was just someones recurring dream. I have always had a keen sense of curiosity, I suppose. I didn't really start studying Astrophysics until last year, up until then I was taking Psychology because I didn't feel like I was smart enough. I had a period of time where I just KNEW that Psychology was selling myself short so I took a year off of school to figure it out. During this time I became so engulfed in books and documentaries and programs like The Universe that I decided to make the switch. To answer your question, it started at a fairly young age but the confidence to actually pursue the space sciences is fairly recent.

University of Maryland, Physics Olympics, 2005.

Revised theory of gravity.

I have decided to turn my blog into a sort of Science, Philosophy and Religion Question and Answer. If you have something you would like to get my thoughts on, feel free to send me a message on Facebook, and if I like your question and it is relevant, I will turn it into an entry :)

From Stan Carey:

"I'd love to hear your opinion on that new cosmological model that doesn't begin with a singularity and therefor has no big bang.

http://www.physorg.com/news198135631.html"

July 19, 2010

First, I would like to state my position and opinion on the Big Bang Theory. To be quite honest, I have never really put 100% confidence in the theory. My reasoning for this is that like the opposing creationist theory, it is somewhat driven by the need FOR and to PROVIDE proof for other theories. For example, there are some implications that are only valid if there existed a period of "inflation" after the actual big bang explosion. I feel as though sometimes physicists and other scientists will concoct theories to provide the proof for a phenomenon, rather than a means for actually explaining it WITH proof. In a sense, a sort of fabrication of validity to secure explanation.

Personally, I like this theory and how there is no singularity, nor the problems involved with it. I feel like the big bang has become accepted and for the most part "unquestioned" simply because it has been accepted for such a long time, aside from the rise of theories such as M-Theory (which would need to be a whole other entry to even touch on the subject) which uses the collision of "branes" to initiate the explosion that is the big bang.

I would love to see where this theory goes and how it develops alongside the search for the Higgs-Boson. You have to take into consideration that science does not explain everything. There has yet to be a testable experiment for string theory. The only proof for black holes is the motion of objects around something they can't see. And for everything in the universe they can't explain they simply call it "dark matter." Did you know that a large portion of Darwins work was nonsense? Einstein's theories now more than ever may be proven wrong. Also, take into consideration this book was published in the early 90s, any theory or model gets built upon and broken down over time.