My academic interests is The universe. I want to how the world begins, how many planet are there and I have many questions that cant be answer in this time.I have known that the world is around 4.5 billion years old and this is the half way of its life. I also interested in the planet that might be same as ours,there must be a human or a live thing, but even now there is only our Earth.
Thursday 19 September 2013
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Your paragraph is very good but some of your sentence is not clear. It can confuse another people that came to see your post. However, I understand what you are telling.
ReplyDeletethank you for you comment and tried to understand what I have written.I will more do better next time.
DeleteYou are the unique person that I have ever seen because you are interested in universe. The only thing I want to tell you is trying to catch a "alien" and show us. By the way the Area 51 might be your dream.
ReplyDeleteHaha,I should be happy or sad that you told "You are the unique person".If I could catch any aliens, I would show you the first person and give you one.
DeleteI wondering about those things too! It's such an interesting thing to know.
ReplyDeleteAnd my thanks to both Alston and Pear, whose comments this evening brought this interesting discussion to my attention. I saw the email advices in my In Box, and that led me here.
DeleteI think I've done my homework quota of comments now.
Me, too.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most exciting books I've read this year is by physicist and astronomer Lawrence Krauss. The title is A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing., which discusses exactly the sort of questions you are talking about. Although I'm sure about some of Krauss's philosophical claims, the science seems solid.
But did you mean to write "that the world is around 4,500 years old," or something else? I'm pretty sure it's much, much older than 4,500 years. Modern physics and cosmology say about 13.8 billion years, which is a lot more than 4,500 years.
Where did you get the figure of 4,500 years?
In case you are worried, I'm perfectly happy for you to disagree with me, as I used to disagree with or question my professors at Sydney University.
DeleteAcademics argue all the time: it's how progress is made, with people presenting new ideas with stronger support. And just because we now know that Aristotle and Newton were largely wrong in their physics, it doesn't mean we no longer respect and admire those brilliant thinkers.
In an academic setting, you can say whatever you think, but you are expected to be able to support it, especially when there is disagreement or questioning, and there is almost always disagreement or questioning.
In a response writing, we are more relaxed than in our more formal academic writing, but our readers might disagree and then we do have to either support our opinion or change it.
Don't worry: I will also support my ideas when they are questioned.
Sorry Peter that is my mistake, I forget to write "Billion". So I meant "The world is around 4,500 billion years old".
DeleteDui, that sounds much better. Do you mean the Earth, the planet that we live on, or the universe in which our planet is a teeny little speck?
DeleteThere are a lot of people who do hold the totally false, unsupported and irrational belief that human beings, and in many cases the universe, was created within the last 10,000 years by some god. In a poll last year, fully 46% of Americans admitted to this sort of idea (Newport, 2012). It is very disturbing that in today's world there are so many who refuse to listen to reason and science, preferring their ancient religious books from primitive and violent cultures to reason and moral right.
Reference
Newport, F. (2013, June 1). In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins. Gallup Politics. Retrieved September 20, 2013 from http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx
In my last comment replying to Dui, I also did a quick bit of research. I already knew the awful facts about American's believing in gods and the nonsense in the Bible, but I did a quick Google to check the source, which I could then cite to support the idea in my comment.
DeleteIf it were just a few who took the Bible seriously, that would not be so surprising, but 46% is almost half the population, and that seems to me so surprising that it needs a reliable source so you know I wasn't just making it up.
Apart from teaching false ideas about reality, I also think that religions, all of them, are morally bad, an idea that might come up in the next article I'm thinking of blogging.
What do you think? Are religions good or bad things?
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ReplyDeletewhen i was young i got dreams about become an astronout hahahaha. i read about space ship and tried to remember each spaceship name.
ReplyDeleteI think that the good point of time when we are young is there are no limit of imagination. I always tell myself not to limit my dream only on what can be happen.