Space and Physics Make Me Happy

The episode of The Universe that I found to be most interesting was Unexplained Mysteries. That being said, I pretty much found all the episodes interesting and really easy to watch. The History channel, as well as Discovery and Animal Planet, are all really good at making documentaries that are very compelling and not at all boring. Regard, Unexplained Mysteries pretty much made me the happiest.

To being with, I’m a nerd (I’m also a geek, as you may be able to tell from my avatar/icon thing and my name). When I was a kid, I wanted to be an Astronomer. When I was a kid, I didn’t actually know how much of Astronomy, especially all the cool things like black holes and such, were actually more Physics based. As it stands now, I’m a Chemist. In this episode, I had at least heard of everything that they were talking about, at least in passing or as a “aren’t those other scientists that aren’t Chemists weird, guys?” Basically what I’m saying here is that the episodes weren’t in another language to me, they were right up my ally.

The next thing I want to talk about here in this nifty little free write is the Time Travel section. Oh my goodness, that part of the episode was cool. I already knew about the whole “fabric” theory, that gravity was basically just a result of our planet being in a “creator” on that piece of fabric. But the whole part about trying to connect two creators and crisscrossing light was fascinating. While I was watching it, however, the first thing in my head was “PARADOX!!!” Naturally, I had forgotten about the theory of Parallel Universes: one that I like to play with all the time while playing around with my own stories. This episode just made me happy: it’s so cool how many Sci-Fi things having become a reality or are on their way to be.

The last thing I want to mention about this episode is that it finally gave me a good definition of Anti-matter. I knew that Anti-matter was the opposite of matter and that when Anti-matter and matter met, they would cancel each other out into a HUGE wave of energy. This thing I didn’t know was what, exactly, made Anti-matter anti. As soon as they said that Anti-matter Protons are negative (Anti-Protons) and Anti-matter Electrons are positive (Positrons), I had a huge lightbulb lighting moment, which pleased me.