QQC Chapter 5

Quote: "Lyell believed that the Earth’s shifts were uniform and steady—that everything that had
ever happened in the past could be explained by events still going  on today."

Question: I wonder what kind of things they prove happened then that are still going on today?

Comment: My quote kind of confused me just a little only because I want to know what kind of examples they have. If they are referring to dinosaurs or something of that nature how would they prove to me that there were dinosaurs by something that is still going on today. In the reading they talk about things will go extinct but come back in new sets. That was something that made me think a little bit because I don't necessarily believe in evolution. I don't believe that I came from some monkey man it doesn't make any sense in my opinion.      

QCCQ chapter 4

Quote: “Newton was a decidedly odd figure—brilliant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, famously distracted (upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning he would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the sudden rush of thoughts to his head), and capable of the most riveting strangeness.”

Comment: I think Newton was so smart in one area but lacked abilities in other areas. He was able to be a great mathematician and scientist, but he may not have been able to be a good friend or a good communicator. I know that other great mathematicians such as Albert Einstein had other social problems but was a great mathematician and could come up with and solve things no one has ever tried before.  

Connection: I have a cousin named Akili who suffers from Autism,but was very smart in school. He absolutely  loves video games and action movies. He isn't afraid to talk but you can tell he has a slight awkwardness about the way he talks. he doesn't make eye contact with you while you are having conversation.  

Question: Why does it that your brain could be so skilled in one aspect but totally lack the abbility in others?   

Quote: "Which is why it is all the more remarkable to reflect that until 1978 
no one had ever noticed that Pluto has  a moon." 

Comment: I kind of herd about Pluto not being a planet some odd years ago. I never really thought about it. Its cool the technology we have and how its evolving. We are going to be finding new things as the years progress. Its also mind blowing to me that we know almost everything going on in space and haven't actually been there.     

Question:  What planet is Pluto a moon to? I may have missed it in the reading. 

QCCQ

Quote: In fact you need to gather everything there is- and squeeze it into a spot so infinitesimally compact that it has no dimensions at all. I chose this quote because the discussion we had in class about dimensions. It was a quite infatuating topic I would like to learn more about.

Comment: Some times I find myself thinking What is space and if I traveled off of earth where would I be going. There is nothing there or doesn't it ever stop.It is mind blowing to me to think where this all came from the big bang? or something more.

Comment:Going back to my first comment of space and how it will never run out. Its almost the same with earth. I can keep walking and walking and never fall off the edge of the earth. My name Morgan means the edge of the sea and it makes me think about there actually being an edge of the world where you could jump off like a waterfall.

Question:Why would books caution us not to describe the big bang theory as an explosion?