Welcome to Flashcards Friday here at Math! Science! History! where every Friday, we take a little idea and make a big discovery out of it. I’m your host, Gabrielle Birchak, and today’s story is about a young scientist, a long, relaxing, boat ride, and a revelation that changed the way we understand the death of stars, and the birth of black holes.
Today, I travel back to the nineteenth century to meet with Pierre-Simon Laplace, a man who imagined a super-intelligence so powerful, it could calculate the entire history and future of the universe.
Understanding momentum goes back to Aristotle’s time, where be believed that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones. Today, momentum propels us to future endeavours that even reside within us!
“Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect, and that is meaningful to the observer.” — Carl Jung Skepticism reigns supreme in science. When something doesn’t make sense, there is a search for truths. Since the beginning of archaic humans, our ancestors have continually pondered the connections of