It's Wednesday and the last week of classes at USC is half over. Finals are a week away and the impending sense of, "I never learned this," is upon us. Instead of attempting to gain the knowledge I should already have, I'm here, talking to you. If you are an expert in the field of international relations, geology or introductory Spanish, please finish reading and then contact me for a crash course. Seeing as I have spent a total of 3 hours today reviewing for my geology final and there have been extremely important discoveries in the field of science today, the Daily Topic seems pretty appropriate: THE UNIVERSE
It seems a little broad, I know, but I mean the Universe isn't THAT big. Okay so maybe it is. And maybe it contains everything ever. But scientists today say that they have discovered...(wait for it)...THE OLDEST EVER OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE. Some people may find this amusing at best and cast it aside. But stop and consider that statement. In the vast unknown that may or may not have limits, scientists have claimed to find the oldest thing ever. Cool? Sure. Extremely arrogant and hubristic? Definitely. The object discovered was the explosion of a 13 billion year old star, which scientists believe to be the approximate age of the universe. But as a semester-long student of geology, I'm going to step up and call BS. Sure, they have all kinds of "computers" and "software," but these numbers are "theories" at best. Any 9 year old kid with a telescope could pull 13 billion out of a hat. To claim that we have found the oldest of any of the trillions and kajillions of objects in the universe is downright disrespectful to the many of things in the universe that are older. I know for a fact that object GRB 48295723 is celebrating its 14th billion birthday on Saturday. I know. I was invited.
But now that we're on the topic of the universe, prepare for your mind to be blown and your world to be rocked by the theory I'm about throw at you. Dark = Light. Let it sink in. Picture yourself looking up at the sky at night. There are a bunch of stars but mostly the sky is black. But then think about how far the universe expands (forever, duh). Then think about all of the stars everywhere in the universe. Then think if you could see them all at once. They would all overlap and the sky would be completely composed of stars. So when you look at the dark night sky, you're looking at trillions of stars so far away that their light hasn't gotten here yet. Ergo, the blackness of the night sky is actually, in fact, light. And that, my friends, is real science.
Q.E.D.
-ROF
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Daily News No One Should Care About: Scientists Spot Oldest Ever Object in Universe
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