Some people don’t like science or scientists because they don’t really understand either. This article will give you some information about scientists and the creation of the universe.
When I went to school in Iraq I hated both the physics lesson and the physics teacher, because I understood nothing. After coming to Greece I started to think differently and began wondering how this enormous universe was created. So I asked my brother and he suggested I read and watch some films about scientists.
I watched the 2013 film “Hawking” about the life of Stephen Hawking, who was one of the best-known physicists to have studied the universe. He was born on January 8th 1942 and died on March 14th 2018. After seeing the film, I started to like science because I realised that through the science of physics we can understand a lot about the universe and how it was created.
My love for scientists and science did not stop there. I continued to read and watched a film called “Einstein’s Big Idea”. Einstein, a German physicist, was born on March 18th 1879 and died on April 18th 1955. He is considered by some to be the cleverest man who ever lived, and the books he wrote about modern physics are still valid today.
I also watched some episodes of Moustafa Mahmoud’s series. He was an Egyptian philosopher, doctor and writer who was born in December 1921 and died in October 2009. He spoke about the creation of the universe and the end of the world. When I saw the programmes, I learnt and began to understand a lot of scientific facts, such as how the universe was created.
The universe is very old. It is estimated to have been created around 14 billion years ago. Scientists used to believe that only the earth was significant and that it was at the centre of the universe. Later, having looked through a telescope, scientists realised that the earth belongs to the solar system, made up of nine planets that orbit the sun. They then found out that there are other solar systems and millions of planets, and that all these solar system are to be found in the galaxy.
This world is so vast, and the earth in this enormous, endless universe, is so tiny. Before the universe was created, there was one dense speck of matter, which then exploded. This explosion has come to be known as “The Big Bang” and it created many separate masses. It took millions of years for these masses to join together to create planets and suns. Then the first cell appeared and later, trees, animals and people, and so life began. The question is: Is there life and are there other beings elsewhere? Is it reasonable to assume that in this enormous universe there is life only on earth? Scientists have sent a satellite with a camera and a message in various languages into space, but have found nothing.
After having seen and read all this information about physics and the universe, my view of the world has changed drastically and my life’s dream is now to become a scientist and study physics and the universe.
*This article has been published in issue #15 of “Migratory Birds” newspaper, which was released as an annex with “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper (Newspaper of the Editors) on October 12th 2019.
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