Saturday, February 27, 2010
Las Universidades
No tengo muchas noticias pero he oido de Northeastern Univeristy y la Universidad de Connecticut. Los dos me acceptaron. Ole! Pero en realidad, no quiero ir a estas universidades. Quiero ir a la Universidad de Boston o la Universidad de Delaware. No se si van a acceptarme pero voy a oir de estas universidades muy pronto. Pienso (y espero) que voy a oir en Marzo. Espero que me accepto!
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Espero que te acepten tus escuelas favoritas también, pero Northeastern y UConn son dos escuelas magníficas, y si andas diciendo por ahí que "Ay, caramba, sólo me aceptaron UConn y Northeastern", imagínate cómo se sentirán tus compañeros que de veras quieren ir a esas escuelas y no reciben las cartas de aceptación...
ReplyDeletepero sé cómo es. Si las otras son tus favoritas, así es, no puedes cambiar cómo te sientes. Ahora es marzo, y la gente empezará a oír de más y más escuelas. Espero que tus noticias sean buenas. ¡No veo por qué no! RMHS tiene "buena historia" con ellas, y tú eres una estudiante buenísima. No debes tener problemas con ninguna de las dos, a no ser que lo que quieres estudiar es algo muy limitado, de un grupo pequeñito... pero no lo creo.
Lo difícil es esperar. Buena suerte...
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ReplyDeleteOne additional thing
ReplyDeleteOk, you have to have faith in anything you believe, for example, I know that I exists, I have faith in that and I would be crazy if I didn't, but this is "confidence or trust in a person or thing," which I can verify (and it is what I think of as the kind of faith you have when you trust your ability to verify anything. "Belief that is not based on proof" on the other hand, is something I would describe to be of religion, because people don't go out to verify what religious book says, they just choose to believe it or not, because you can't verify what they say, because you can't verify something spiritual, that is, you can't verify something that is not physical or psychological, so if you can't verify it, how can anyone say that it is true? It's not the morality and wisdom from religion that I don't appreciate, it's the belief in things you can't verify, like God.
The definitions of faith I got from dictionary.com
ReplyDeleteThere was a blog that I wrote last nighht that didn't appear, so I will post this one again since I don't see it here. If I don't see it here later, I'll know it was removed and I won't post it again
ReplyDeleteWe know that the force of gravity is present. This is because of what would happen if it wasn't, and we can examine this by going to outer space. For example, an astronaut who is eating a bowl of mash potatoes in a rocket ship can leave his bowl floating in the air if he needs to go get a tissue, because there is no attractive force (like that of a planet) that pulls the bowl down to its center. Likewise, it is the reason why astronauts float in space or have to catch the water when it comes out of the shower head to wash themselves, because the water doesn't fall down, it floats. It is also the reason why people can jump higher on the moon than on earth- they moon is smaller than the earth so it has less gravity, so it's force holding you down isn't as great and that's why you can jump higher. Gravity is also the reason planets revolve around stars and don't wander through space. The sun is so massive, that it makes up 99.8% of the mass in our solar system. Its mass attracts the planets around it, and keeps them from traveling out of orbit like our planet attracts us to it and keeps us from floating away into space. The reason why planets revolve around the sun is because when the solar system was born it was made up of a lot of gas, and this gas started spinning around the point where it was most highly concentrated (that is the part that became the sun). At the center where the sun is is where most gas was, the gas particles were attracted to each other, as they got close together they exerted a stronger force on the particles around them, pulling more particles in. The motion of the particles towards the center caused the gas throughout the cloud (that is our solar system) to start rotating (that's why all the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction). The particles of gas cooled down, condensed and solidified (like water vapor becoming water and then ice). The more particles it attracted the bigger it became, and eventually it turned into a planet. In our solar system this happened in several places giving us several planets. The particles coming together started spinning- that's why planets rotate on an axis, just like stars continue to spin in place to this day. The great amount of force that is compressing the colossal amount of material in the sun together is what allow nuclear reactions to take place in the sun, that keep the sun burning, and the amount of material in the sun is what keeps the sun burning for billions of years. (It's estimated that the sun is about 5 billion years old, and according to star patterns we've observed in the universe, it is estimated that the sun is half way through its life.) One More thing about the birth of a solar system- we’ve observed through telescopes that young stars have coronal mass ejections, which means there is an explosion when the star is born that blows away excess layers of the star with great force. This dust that gets blown away is so forceful that it gets blown out of the solar system, along with the remaining dust in the solar system that didn’t accrete and become a planet.
So basically, gravity is what makes everything fall to the ground, and just because you don't see it like you can see someone walking down the street doesn't mean that you can't verify it (Simplest thing to think about again is astronauts.) It would be unreligious to try to research and experiment to explain any of this, that's why science is more objective than religion or faith. Do you see what I mean?