Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
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Cosmology.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Voyager 1 is more than 160 AU from the Sun, the farthest yet, but still only at the edge of our cosmic neighborhood.
2.
Quote:
- Heraclitus.
- 500 BCE.
Meaning:
Change is the only form of permanence that exists—first glimpsed by ancient thinkers, and now woven into the fabric of modern science.
3.
From History: 1848
In 1842, the Doppler effect was proposed by Christian Doppler. First confirmed for sound in 1845, then for light in 1848.
4.
By tradition, quantum theory was born on December 14, 1900, when Max Planck cracked classical physics with the strange idea that energy comes in discrete packets.
5.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- circa 1980.
Meaning:
Wisdom begins with perspective. We are are expressions of the universe. The particles making up your body are ancient, borrowed for a time from a universe much older than you.
6.
From History: 180 Million years ago (+/- 5 million)
The breakup of Pangaea did not just reshape geography. It reshaped evolution by isolating populations, limiting movement, and allowing different branches of life to follow different paths.
7.
Physicists often talk about the idea that the universe exploded from nothing in a singularity, that idea is more philosophical than scientic. The universe’s expansion is scientific, the singularity itself remains speculative.
8.
Quote:
- Copernicus.
- 1543.
From History:
Meaning:
Nicolaus Copernicus judged ideas not by tradition or authority, but by how well they fit the evidence.
9.
From History: 13.4 Billion Years Ago
Galaxies formed early in cosmic history, within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang.
10.
Article summary:
The Fermi Paradox is the common framework for thinking about the odds of alien life, but we need more data before it can become accurate enough to be useful.
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