Antimatter

Authors note: I am writing this because I just saw a movie that had antimatter in it and it seemed like an interesting topic.

Antimatter to me is the destroyer of matter kind of like how galactus is the destroyer of worlds in The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I imagined antimatter as little bombs that blow up and destroy matter when they are put together. Antimatter is, in my opinion, something that, if harnessed properly, could be used to help us understand more about our world and what goes on around us everyday.


Antimatter, what is it? Antimatter is the exact opposite of matter and creates anticombinations of particles using antiparticles and antimatter just like how matter and other particles make combinations like hydrogen and oxygen. When anti matter and regular matter combine they destroy each other and create matter antimatter pairs like gamma radiation.  Scientists believe that for every inch of regular matter we see there is an inch of antimatter we don't see. Antimatter has shown up a lot in the past in many theories and still is in some. Some theories included the vortex theory of gravity which proposed the possibility of negative gravity, which could be redone and then used to create hovercraft technology if corrected in my opinion, was thought of by William Hicks in the 1880s. Another includes Karl Pearson's theory that there were squirts and sinks in the flow of aether which I, personally, think could be true.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in his two whimsical letters to nature in 1898 in which he coined it. He hypothesized the existence of antiatoms, and that matter and antimatter annihilated each other, which would be hard to see unless you had a really good microscope. His ideas were not serious ideas in the scientific development.

The  modern theory of antimatter began in 1928 with Paul Dirac. He realized that his relativistic theory of wave equations for electrons made the possibility of antielectrons. These were found by Carl D. Anderson in 1932 and named positrons. Although Dirac did not use the term antimatter its use follows on with antielectrons, antiparticles, and antiprotons.

As you can see we have already tried to understand more about antimatter but with the technology back then we couldn't. So what do you think? Do you think that, with the technology we have now or in the future, that we could start to harness and understand more about antimatter? As I said before,  if we could harness antimatter we could be one step closer to understanding more about the beautiful planet we live on.

electricity and its history

Author's note: I wrote this because It popped into my mind after realizing how much electricity my family uses. I am trying to write a serious piece with good vocabulary.

Electricity is a amazing discovery. For years every one had to use candles to see in the night. Well not after Ben Franklin discovered electricity, or did he? After the discovery of electricity people experimented with it and started making ways to use it for light sources, heat sources, and even transportation. In my opinion electricity is one of the coolest things there is. We can do almost anything with electricity. Even now scientists are trying to find new ways to use electricity. They are trying to make energy efficient cars and planes as well as eco-friendly. If we could harness the sun to a greater extent we could use it to help make solar powered modes of transportation and it would be an eco-friendly source of power that could help eliminate green-house gasses.

The first people to really discover electricity, without knowing they did, were the Ancient Egyptians in 2750 B.C. The first people to try and use electricity using catfish and torpedo rays were the Arab doctors who used the numbing shocks from these fish to cure ailments such as headaches and gouts (whatever they are).  The first person to harness electricity through lightning was the famous Ben Franklin which we all know he used a key and a kite. Do you know who created the first source of electricity through a battery like conductor? Well it was the not so commonly known Alessandra Volta. Her conductor was made of alternating layers of zinc and copper. Hey maybe her last name is where we got the term voltage.

The science world will continue to dig and dive deeper into electricity. If we can know everything about our world and actually cared about stuff maybe we would be able to bring our Earth back to its normal glory through eco-energy. Maybe then we can finally understand nature and truly realize its beauty. The Earth gives us life but it can take it away if we don't give back to it. We need to truly understand our Earth to save it and save ourselves

Bouncy Blimp Unveiled

What’s so new about this blimp taking people to Atlantis the city once at the bottom of the ocean now resting on the clouds? We were able to get an exclusive interview with one of the new blimps captains, and this is what he said about how it is different “ Well I’ll tell ya, this here new fangled blimp runs on trampolines. All the passengers have to do is have fun on the trampolines in order to get this baby going.”   
The inside of the blimp is made of trampolines. Passengers bouncing on the trampolines supplies energy to power propellers. So the blimp transport is made for those who are willing to bounce for art of the trip.  Are you in good enough shape to bounce from Milwaukee to Atlantis?  The heavier the person, the more power they could generate based on how hard they hit.  Each and every person is weighed before getting on the transport on the blimp so the amount of power being picked up by the trampoline can be calculated during each bounce session for even speed on the trip. 
How does it work exactly?  The bounce of the trampoline works like the pistons of a car.  Pushes of air travel down what we call the “jump tubes” and that force eventually coverts into energy that runs the propellers.  Passengers also have to be ready when it is their turn to go so the speed does not slow down.  This blimp is eco friendly.  There is no gas needed, no electricity needed, no solar panels  even – just a bunch of people jumping around and expending their free energy.  We do feed  them and give them water so I guess that is the “fuel” we need.  However,  it still takes a little bit of gas to get the initial liftoff and starting speed to get it going.

maya

The Ancient Mayans were a great civilization that spanned over roughly 3,550 years and then mysteriously just dropped off the timeline. Their reign was like the rising and setting of the sun.  They rose up, reached a climax period of prosperity, then quickly set past the horizon of history never to rise again.
 
During the dawn of their civilization they learned how to produce a surplus of food from their farms, enough to sustain them so that some of them were able to create new jobs such as pottery making and healing.   Simple ceramic pottery has been dug up from their ruins. Since crops were good, they stayed in one place, built homes and stayed attached to families.  Ruins have been unearthed to show that many people stayed together to build all these different places for everyone to hang out.  They eventually created their religion.  Archeologists have found drawings of idols on the pottery and actual idols that may have been used during religious ceremonies. 
Their civilization’s growth climaxed because a small group of elite or noble people would prey off of the working class.  At the top of the chain were the "kings" or religious leaders who were thought to be the reincarnations of Mayan gods.  The second layer of the chain of command were the priests or in the Mayan Language, Ah’kinob and the  “shamans”.  The shamans were like the doctors of today and the priests were like our modern day pastors.  They helped keep order and were probably the smarter people since people looked up to them.  The third layer was the common people who built the Mayan culture into what it was by doing all the hard work as laid out by the kings.  The slaves did even harder labor being at the bottom of the chain.  Again, the ruins show a lot of hard work went into building cities.
 
 
Even though the disappearance of the Mayans is a mystery, the great minds of our day are trying to solve it.   If we figure out what happened to them, we may be able to figure how to make sure it does not happen to us.  If the same thing happened to us, would a future culture dig us up and call us a great civilization?