Inertia - Science for You

GALAXY TYPES Galaxies What are galaxies? Yeah, you know that. It's a system of a large number of stars -  billions and millions of stars. It also has gas and dust. These interstellar gases and dust absorb light from the stars and diminish the light reaching our eyes further along with diminishing it faces by distance. Unawareness of these absorbing gases and dust in the past had led to miscalculations of distances and locations. Okay, now focus on the topic. Galaxy types Spiral Spiral galaxies show rotation and flattening with a central bulge. Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy. This type is the most numerous among bright galaxies. Milky Way Galaxy. Image courtesy: NASA The different types of spiral galaxies are Sa, Sb, Sc... . This progression is in the decreasing order of importance of the nucleus or the central bulge wrt the surrounding disc. Milky Way is of the Sb type. Barred Spiral Some spiral galaxies have bars in their centre. they are the barred spiral...

SONOLUMINESCENCE Sonoluminescence: the phenomenon of production of light from sound; to be said the simplest. The interesting matter is that, we don’t know how! Science is searching for explanations. Okay, so let’s talk about sonoluminescence. SOME PHILOSOPHY Some hold that everything we discover these days, from the past many centuries, are but re-discoveries only. The knowledge about everything had once been acquired; but it got lost. Personally, Echo Delta as well believes in it. And, all those are not really ‘lost’, but rather is now hidden in scriptures like Mahabharata, Holy Bible, Holy Qur’an, Torah etc. So, why am I talking about this now? Genesis 1.3 of the Old Testament, Holy Bible, goes as follows: ‘Then God commanded, “Let there be light”- and light appeared.’ This command is the first command of God. And, when light was ‘created’, what He saw was water. This might imply sonoluminescence. Yes, I mean it. God produces a sound, that sound creates light: so...