"Significance" Will Make You Reevaluate Your Place in the World
Ebony Bellamy
We're constantly reading about NASA's recent discoveries. But, has there ever been a discovery they neglected to tell the public about? Significance explores this idea as it follows the events of a recent scientific discovery that could have irreversible effects on the planet.
When stars appear in the night sky, we are seeing them in a past state. But, there are times when their past selves can directly affect Earth. When stars explode, which is known as a supernova, they send debris like radiation into space. This debris could have catastrophic results if it was headed toward Earth.
This is precisely what happens in Significance. This science-fiction thriller
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The something he was talking about was a scientific discovery. He has been searching for this for a long time. Now that he has found it, he refuses to believe it's not important. Even when he learns other people know about the supernova, he knows he is just as vital to the discovery. Miles' search for validation is something we have all experienced. How many times have we become consumed with something to prove we are smart, talented or worth something to someone else? We are always looking for approval from other people to validate our self-worth. But, sometimes it takes unplanned events to show us our significance in the world.
Miles yearns for Miller's approval despite Miller's condescending behavior toward him. Having someone question your intelligence and ability to succeed repeatedly can destroy someone's confidence. But, this helped Miles to never give up on his goal. When Miller is first introduced, he leaves a nasty taste in viewers' mouths. Between his attitude and need to remind Miles how inferior he is, Miller is the type of professor you wish you never have. Then, when the audience finds out he knew about the supernova and the harm it could cause to mankind this makes them resent him even more. It also makes them question while Miles is so desperate for Miller's approval. But, when he reveals why he never discussed his findings with anyone else the audience is able to see his softer side. Without enough
A supernova is an explosion that marks the end of the life of a massive star. A supernova has the mass three times the mass of the sun and explodes. Most black holes form after a supernova or explosion of a giant star. (Sipiera P., 1997).
Miller, throughout his play, shows each character as an individual, and to highlight their strengths
Our new understanding of the solar system and the technology we’ve developed through conducting missions has benefitted our society by helping us understand things about other planets, space, and most importantly help us understand more things about our home, planet Earth.
When Miles arrives on Culver Creek and meets his roommate Chip "Colonel" Martin, he is already trying to change his social situation. He makes a genuine effort in being friends with the “Colonel” when he cracks a couple of jokes. He also goes out of his comfort zone when meeting new people. For example, he even introduces himself first when meeting Lara, who later becomes his girlfriend. This gesture showed his eagerness to make new friends and meet new people. Another example showing Miles’ willingness to integrate into his new environment, includes him smoking and drinking. Even though such activities are not considered as very good behaviour, his best intentions are put forward. In the “Colonel’s” group of friends, all of them smoke and drink, and so Miles does as well in order to fit in. This shows Miles' eagerness to have friends as he goes through such extremes to integrate into a new environment.
Stars have the ability to cause multiple events. The stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe, and responsible for many things. The formation of a star begins within clouds of dust. Turbulence deep within the clouds gives a rise in speed with enough mass that the cloud can collapse under its own gravitational pull. As the cloud collapses the core begins to heat up. This is called a protostar, and what will one day become a star. The end of a star occurs when a star has fused all of its hydrogen and the star collapses and the
A blindingly bright star bursts into view in a corner of the night sky — it wasn't there just a few hours ago, but now it burns like a beacon. That bright star isn't actually a star, the brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, otherwise known as a supernova.
One of the most powerful explosion events in space is known as a supernova. These occur at the end of a star's lifetime when a star runs out of nuclear fuel and it is no longer supported by the nuclear energy. When a star explodes star start the births of new stars and the formation of solar systems like our own. Stars live 10 million years burning hydrogen into helium and helium into oxygen. The energy of the explosion is equal to all the energy the Sun gives out in a 10 billion year lifetime time’s 100 and put out in 1 second. Supernova release as much light and energy as our star will in 10 billion years, but there are hardly any supernovas events in our galaxy.
Even new things such as in 2006 three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of the first rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star near the center of the galaxy. Or in 2007 with the launch on China’s first probe to explore the Moon from lunar orbit on a CZ-3 rocket. Or even in 2010 when the US president Barack Obama canceled the Constellation project to take humans
Have you ever seen a supernova in person, if not not it was probably because Supernovas are difficult to see in our own Milky Way galaxy because of dust blocking our view. Supernovas are 33 light years away. A website called eartsky.org stated “there might be one dangerous supernova event in Earth’s vicinity every 15 million years” . Another says, “that, on average, a supernova explosion occurs within 10 parsecs (33 light-years) of the Earth every 240 million years.”
Everything has a system, a routine, a cycle. For stars, their life cycle can last billions of years. Every star we see in the night sky is at a different stage in its life cycle. As NASA said, “Stars are the most widely recognized astronomical objects, and represent the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies.”
Other possible outcomes could have surfaced with the reframing of the problem. At this point, it is not important if ultimate problem was one of the possible outcomes. What is valuable to NASA is that there is free flow of communication among its employees who are receptive to ideas due to the logic of any proposed outcome.
Catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass is the reason the star suddenly increases greatly in brightness. The changes in the core of the star is when a Supernova is formed. A change that happens in two ways, both equal a Supernova.
In this paper, I will argue that we can live a more meaningful life by developing a sense of purpose. I will support my thesis by presenting an argument from Christine Vitrano's essay Meaningful Lives. Next, I will present an alternative view to my thesis with an argument from Leo Tolstoy’s essay My Confession. Finally, I will discuss a potential objection to my view, showing how it can be met.
Every now and then, a large star reaching the end of its life collapses in on itself, and then explodes very violently. The star explodes so violently that for a few weeks the star can out shine its parent galaxy. This type of explosion is known as a supernova. Neutron stars form during a supernova.
Stars are phenomenal glowing spheres that everyone has noticed in the night sky. Long ago they were poorly understood. Today, with the help from astronomers, physicists, and other space scientists, we have discovered a large amount of information about stars.