Heh. Today, I'll blog about something boring. Non-fiction. Heh heh. I bet some of you will probably read less than halfway through and get sleepy. =p
Some of you know I have a secret admiration for astronomy. I love it. Its beautiful in all ways. No, not just the solar system, the whole universe. Its amazing don't you think? A big empty space full of shit, all the shit that you can imagine. Why I suddenly wanna blog about this? Well, just yesterday, while on duty, I was reading this article on Time magazine about the theory on how the universe actually started. Of course some of you might have already know that the universe started out with the infamous 'big bang'. Ever wonder where that 'big bang' thingie came from?
According to renowned astro-physicist, they had a theory that long long time ago, more than 20 billion years ago, there was a universe just like ours. That universe actually compressed and collapse into this super-massive dense ball of matter. It is not known whether this is true or not, just theories. So when the 'big bang' occurred, the universe was born. The 'thing' that exploded was called Singularity. After that, all the mambo jambo are kinda hard to understand so I'll skip that. =p
So because of this big bang, our universe is actually expanding. Even after 13.7billion years after it happened, its still expanding, faster than the speed of light at the edges. Try imagining a balloon being blown. So what actually is the content of the universe? You've probably had learnt about matter in physics lessons, but do you know that actually all the know matters to man are only 10% of what there are in the universe. The other 90% are unknown to scientists. The mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" are used to call these matters. (kinda cool eh?) So it all brings back to tell us how tiny we are on this blue ball we call home. We complained about a trip from Jurong to Pasir Ris is gonna take an annoying 1 1/2 hours. It takes light (travelling at 300,000km/sec) 2.5 million years to reach us from the galaxy, Andromeda. You do the maths. Thats our closest, similiar sized, galaxy to our own Milky Way.
Damn. I can't go on talking about this. You'll guys would never read my post, ever. Lol. Ok lah ok lah. You're a boring guy, Fie! But still, can't a boring guy ever ponder about stuffs which fascinates just about every person that could look up into the sky and at the stars. (Don't bother doing that in your neighbourhood. All you can see are just afew sparkles. Zz)
