The Beginning from Darkness

Space has been around longer than you could even imagine. Billions of billions of years have gone by since the beginning of darkness. Scientists believed the making of the universe was due to a extraordinary phenomenon, the Big Bang. Here's what Yuki D. Takahashi, a 3^rd year undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology said,

According to the big bang theory, the universe began by expanding from an infinitesimal volume with extremely high density and temperature. The universe was initially significantly smaller than even a pore on your skin. With the big bang, the fabric of space itself began expanding like the surface of an inflating balloon – matter simply rode along the stretching space like dust on the balloon's surface. The big bang is not like an explosion of matter in otherwise empty space; rather, space itself began with the big bang and carried matter with it as it expanded. Physicists think that even time began with the big bang.

 Now lets think about this for a minute. Back when who knows when nothing even existed. The area at which we occupy right now doesn't exist. The moon was never there or even the planets. Then all of a sudden from a tiny point from which everything was contained, it just burst. Everything started to expand rapidly and elements were being created. The galaxy is still expanding and space itself is right above our heads. In fact, around 50 years ago the first man went into space.

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to every go into space. It happened on April 12, 1961. He was a Russian astronaut and the shuttle that made it possible for him to reach outer space was called the Vostok 1. "The Vostok was a spherical capsule, designed to eliminate changes in center of gravity," said in an article written by Amanda Schupak. From that day on, space started to change drastically(around the Earth). The U.S. recently shut down the shuttle program of NASA but Russia continues to send people to space. 

I've explored enough of the history today and it's time for me to go.
This is BE#2
Signing out...  



Works Cited

Schupak, Amanda. "6 Surprising Facts About Yuri Gagarin's First Spaceflight." Fox News. FOX News Network, 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 01 Sept. 2012. <http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/11/6-surprising-facts-human-spaceflight/>.

Takahashi, Yuki D. "Big Bang: How Did the Universe Begin?" 
            Big Bang: How Did the Universe     Begin? N.p., 2000. Web. 01 Sept. 2012.                                          
            <http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yukimoon/BigBang/BigBang.htm>.