Today was fun! We started off with a Mini-Quiz over the our notes yesterday; what three theories have existed for the origin of the universe (not God made it, not a theory) and what is redshift.
We then did a lab modeling the expansion of the universe and the observed phenomena of galaxies moving away from us. The model should have also shown that galaxies that are further away appear to be moving faster.
When then went back to our notes (which you can download from yesterday's blog entry) and talked briefly about Dark Energy, Dark Matter and a Type 1a Supernova.
Tomorrow we'll continue talking about supernova and how they're used to measure distance in the cosmos and hopefully wrap up notes about the Big Bang model.
Until next,
-
Monegan
No comments:
Post a Comment