Summary:
This part of the book starts talking about the power of a light bulb and what is light. It was concluded that light is a wave of electric and magnetic fields. Now when I was reading this part I questioned what that had to do with zero. Well there is something called The Quantum Zero which is saying that an object never runs out of energy. Today we no that that is not try, but back then it was still a little bit of a mystery. A man by the name of Albert Einstein who was a patent clerk at the time wrote a paper about photoelectric effect in 1887 and won a Noble prize for his well put information. This concluded that electrons are emitted from matter depending on its wave length. This paper also forced people to accept zero for what it was because the proof was presented. Einstein was actually a man that fixed a lot of errors people made in their work and that played its part in the evolution of society. Next thing was the big bang theory and what it was saying. This theory really says that nothing came out of nothing. So back than if you believed in the big bang theory, you could not go against the existence of zero. Some people say zero should be banished because of the meaningless answers sometimes gives in things like equations, but I disagree with such an idea.
Quote:
"the black hole, a star so dense that nothing can escape its grasp,not even light. "(Seife 179).
Reaction:
I was interested in this quote because I was not quite sure what a black hole was and here the definition is a kind of star. Then I wondered if it was a star how come the light does not shine bright so we can spot it. Then I kept reading and I learned that the reason it does not shine is because the "event horizontal" prevents it from being seen. Anything past this horizontal can be seen in the black hole and to me that was kind of cool and shocking and I wonder whether society will ever come up with a safe way to see past this and observe what is beyond the event horizontal.
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