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Kimothy · 01-22-2014, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Oh STELLAR! Pleased as plasma he could call her by this nickname, he chuckled a bit more at her response. "Oooooooooooh I think there is only good sides to gravity," he replied while shaking his finger. "Even if falling off one's broom in quidditch is unpleasant and can result in serious injury...without gravity - say we just were able to magically turn it off on earth - everything, even the atmosphere, would float right off."

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"As many of you guessed, what I was crudely demonstrating by having the egg splatter on the floor was the Big Bang Theory or, as Miss Greenwell implied, how many perceive the Big Bang Theory. Namely that it it one big EXPLOSION of stuff all over the universe." Not to feel bad. It was a very common thing, so no student should feel bad about it. "While no one knows for sure seeing as there was no eye witness to the beginning of all things, the most accepted theory until semi recently, as Miss Gallaway mentioned with the black hole suggestion, was the Big Bang Theory which is what I would like us to focus on today and for the rest of the term. Not just the theory itself, but creation." Pretty exciting stuff really. Not to mention he was keeping the promise he had made to a few seventh years regarding a project with jars.

"Despite what the name suggests, there was not a bunch of space guts and debris that sprang out of seemingly no where, whizzing out into the surrounding space. All explosions have a center. For this to be true about the Big Bang Theory, then there would need to be something that exploded, or expanded, from one center point outward into space. However, what the theory does is suggest that space itself is expanding and doing so in all directions and equally." He paused for a moment. "So, what I want you all to do is erase the image of a bomb going off from your mind as to what the Big Bang is. The Big Bang was not so much an explosion as the start of a great expansion, which continues even now. Can you all do that?"

Not waiting for any head nodding or protesting, he moved things along by flicking his wand towards a piece of chalk to make it write on the black board for him.

"Before we get more into the physics and logistics of the theory, I want us all to back up a bit and break things down so we can stomach things a little easier," he said with another step towards the broken egg on the floor and gave his wand another flick to put it all back together again. "We are going to understand the Big Bang in 10 steps. We have already gone over the first step, which is the initial "bang,"" he said while using air quotes when he said the word bang. "The Big Bang was caused by quantum fluctuations which are, in laymen's terms, temporary appearance of energetic particles out of nothing and in its first few moments the universe was extremely hot and dense. Now, when the universe was very VERY young - about a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second - it experienced a tremendous growth spurt. Can anyone tell me what the name of this growth spurt is called?"

Well, yeah. Gravity was good, too, like what Professor Flamsteed had said about it. We'd all be floating and stuff. That'd be COOL though, but of course it wasn't just "cool". It had its bad side, of course. But she wasn't going to keep thinking about that because they were moving on with the lesson. Yes, and Astrid was taking down notes like the good student she was. Also, she liked Professor Flamsteed. She did. She approved of him, so he got enthusiastic grins from the sixth year.

Anywaaaaaaay... Astrid listened. So the universe was super young, about a hundredth something-something. Blablabla. Astrid was scribbling that too fast on her parchment to catch up with what the Professor had said. Gosh. That was a lot.... but then, growth spurt. YES SHE KNEW THAT. OH SHE DID. Astrid raised her hand almost immediately after the question was asked. "It experienced some sort of expansion... which I think is called inflation!" She got that right, didn't she?

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Kimothy Moke Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: nickle's back pocket Posts: 8,993 Hogwarts RPG Name: Astrid Grimaldi Slytherin Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Miles Charlton Ravenclaw Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Bisan Helena Bellaire Hufflepuff First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Clementine Adams-Sayse Gryffindor Second Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Daciana Romanos Ravenclaw Second Year x12	Kimothée Chalamet • The UWU Agenda • Once Baby, Now Trouble • All Growed Up Text Cut: We like Flammy already ^_^ Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Oh STELLAR! Pleased as plasma he could call her by this nickname, he chuckled a bit more at her response. "Oooooooooooh I think there is only good sides to gravity," he replied while shaking his finger. "Even if falling off one's broom in quidditch is unpleasant and can result in serious injury...without gravity - say we just were able to magically turn it off on earth - everything, even the atmosphere, would float right off." ... "As many of you guessed, what I was crudely demonstrating by having the egg splatter on the floor was the Big Bang Theory or, as Miss Greenwell implied, how many perceive the Big Bang Theory. Namely that it it one big EXPLOSION of stuff all over the universe." Not to feel bad. It was a very common thing, so no student should feel bad about it. "While no one knows for sure seeing as there was no eye witness to the beginning of all things, the most accepted theory until semi recently, as Miss Gallaway mentioned with the black hole suggestion, was the Big Bang Theory which is what I would like us to focus on today and for the rest of the term. Not just the theory itself, but creation." Pretty exciting stuff really. Not to mention he was keeping the promise he had made to a few seventh years regarding a project with jars. "Despite what the name suggests, there was not a bunch of space guts and debris that sprang out of seemingly no where, whizzing out into the surrounding space. All explosions have a center. For this to be true about the Big Bang Theory, then there would need to be something that exploded, or expanded, from one center point outward into space. However, what the theory does is suggest that space itself is expanding and doing so in all directions and equally." He paused for a moment. "So, what I want you all to do is erase the image of a bomb going off from your mind as to what the Big Bang is. The Big Bang was not so much an explosion as the start of a great expansion, which continues even now. Can you all do that?" Not waiting for any head nodding or protesting, he moved things along by flicking his wand towards a piece of chalk to make it write on the black board for him. "Before we get more into the physics and logistics of the theory, I want us all to back up a bit and break things down so we can stomach things a little easier," he said with another step towards the broken egg on the floor and gave his wand another flick to put it all back together again. "We are going to understand the Big Bang in 10 steps. We have already gone over the first step, which is the initial "bang,"" he said while using air quotes when he said the word bang. "The Big Bang was caused by quantum fluctuations which are, in laymen's terms, temporary appearance of energetic particles out of nothing and in its first few moments the universe was extremely hot and dense. Now, when the universe was very VERY young - about a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second - it experienced a tremendous growth spurt. Can anyone tell me what the name of this growth spurt is called?" Well, yeah. Gravity was good, too, like what Professor Flamsteed had said about it. We'd all be floating and stuff. That'd be COOL though, but of course it wasn't just "cool". It had its bad side, of course. But she wasn't going to keep thinking about that because they were moving on with the lesson. Yes, and Astrid was taking down notes like the good student she was. Also, she liked Professor Flamsteed. She did. She approved of him, so he got enthusiastic grins from the sixth year. Anywaaaaaaay... Astrid listened. So the universe was super young, about a hundredth something-something. Blablabla. Astrid was scribbling that too fast on her parchment to catch up with what the Professor had said. Gosh. That was a lot.... but then, growth spurt. YES SHE KNEW THAT. OH SHE DID. Astrid raised her hand almost immediately after the question was asked. "It experienced some sort of expansion... which I think is called inflation!" She got that right, didn't she? __________________ When all is going wrong and you're scared as hell..._________________________ _____________________...Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories