The Elegant Universe Personal Statement

I am a very curious person and I would love to learn how math and science can be applied to the development of new technology. Learning the physics of how and why things work is really important to me. I like to understand why I am doing something. That way it makes more sense to me and sticks in my brain.

Learning is a never-ending process, be it learning new skills or learning more about a new business domain. Gradually, you will gain more knowledge about the business and as and when you are assigned to projects, you can always get more details and discover the specific business needs driving the initiative and key objectives to be delivered by the project.

These were two great readings that explain real well the points and ideas they are trying to emphasizes that I really liked learning

High-energy particle physics has been of much interest to me. I first encountered it in a talk by Chris Lucas on “The Search For Super Symmetry” about his work at the Large Hadron Collider. His research into a this mysterious field of work fascinated

My waking brother preparing for work, the only clue that it was seven o’clock already. By this time, I would have made a two hour dent into the endless amount of material and educational videos about science, from recent discoveries and ideas such as the limitless potential of metallic hydrogen, and proposed and conducted treatments for harmful algal bloom in our own Great Lakes to the history of setups and labs that have led to the foundation of knowledge that is studied in school such as the experimentation which led to Sanger

The mumblings reverberated through the apartment. The Houston moon hung in a uniform starless sky. A PBS special on Nova, The Elegant Universe, illuminated the dark room, casting shadows. Brian Greene, a physicist from Columbia University, was explaining particle theory in such a captivating way; it resembled science fiction. Pulling the comforter over my head; I scooted closer to the fat back television sitting on the milk crate. Sometimes the colors ran, and when you smacked the back; baby beetles scurried out from the heat source into the light. Needless to say, I didn't want to be too close. Pressing the button, I increased the volume to drown out the voice of my mother; an untreated paranoid schizophrenic.

Albert Einstein of the 1900s “was able to calculate up a formula to show that we can more accurately describe gravity’s action-at-a-distance as a warp in the fabric of space-time, produced by any combination of matter and energy” (64). With that being said, it opened up many minds in the world of astronomy which made it more capable for astronomers to gather up a better understanding of what this blank substance referred to as dark matter is actually

It was not until in 1916, when theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) created the Theory of General Relativity, which gave the answer to Newton’s problem. As Einstein looked out of his window he imagined a man in free fall, how it would look to the observer, and then he imagined what this man in free fall would look like if he were in a falling elevator. He thought that if Newton’s laws of gravity were correct, then the man should remain with his feet planted to the floor of the elevator as it falls; however, the man realistically would not have his feet planted, but rather would appear to be floating in the center of the elevator. Einstein thought to himself that Newton had to be wrong, that there was no way objects pulled other objects towards it. After eight years of research Einstein finally came up with a solution. This solution stated that objects are not pulled towards anything; rather objects of lesser mass are pushed towards the object of larger mass. This is because matter bends the space around it. This space is known as

This idea shows how discovery has a meaningful impact on a person’s sense of

I was also able to comprehend the various aspects of field appraisal and developments such as magnetic survey, environmental survey, gravitational survey and seismic survey.

The world is mysterious, but what is the world? I used to see the world as the people on the earth, the major events around the world, and as “my life”. Reading “The Magic of Reality”, has changed the way I live. Through reading your book, I have expanded my interest in science, I have strengthened my ability to think outside of the box, and have answered questions I couldn’t understand by asking anyone on the street. The way everything has a place and a history changed all my assumptions on reality.

Gerald E. Tauber achieved purpose for writing this book was to give insight to his readers on Einstein’s theories and he has fulfilled his purpose in Relativity : From Einstein to Black Holes. The writing was powerful but very difficult at times to understand what the author was trying to say to his readers. I found Tauber’s writing to be very compelling but at times to be dull because I had no idea what the author was trying to talk about. Tauber understood his own writing as he was a mathematic and physicist himself. I would only recommend this book to readers who are interested in Einstein and his

When I was a freshman in high school, my oldest sister gave me a book named “The Black Hole War” by Leonard Susskind. The primary focus of the book was how matter behaved near and inside black holes, as well as on the quantum level. As a child with a craving to understand astronomy and chemistry, I loved the book greatly. But now, looking back on it, it occurs to me how important the argumentative portion of the book was, for then I only looked for what information was to be gained, but now I see how it was gained. It was the clash of thoughts that gave way to the new information. The arguing of faults in opinions. When the faults are eliminated, the truth, no matter how small, is all that

When it comes to Physics, it's really sad to say that somehow I have managed to develop a certain dislike towards the subject in the recent weeks.

Affinities – the frequency of their occurrence is often inversely proportional to the quality of their content. My childhood was marked by one in particular: reading. Ever since I first discovered the rare ability of books to transport me to places of adventure, mystery, and delight when I was five, it was virtually impossible to peel me away from the pages of my latest friend. My head was constantly filled with the adventures of d’Artagnan and Sherlock Holmes, the trials of Jane Eyre, and the doings of many other characters. Until I began seventh-grade, my sun rose and set between the covers of a book – then, something happened. I discovered a new affinity: science. Before then, science had been anathema to me, in plain words – I loathed it. But when I started to read my seventh grade general science textbook, the words came alive – and like a novel – a new world unfolded and gripped my imagination. My fascination with science in general continued for about three years when it suddenly sharpened and gained intense focus with the advent of my chemistry textbook. From the moment I opened the book and smelled the unique aroma of the pages and saw the first diagrams of atoms until the final, triumphant moment when I read the last paragraph, I became more and more fascinated with the topic. The idea of minute bonds and empty space making up the matter surrounding me intrigued me. From that year on, I knew that I wanted to know as much as I could