Free Term Paper on the 21st Century
In A Brief History of
Time by Stephen Hawking There were very many
interesting theories and facts that were brought up about physics. A couple of
these theories and fact help lead me to deciding on my opinion about the future
of physics in the 21st century. My opinion is that in the 21st century a couple
of things will happen in the way of physics. First I think scientist will
continue work on old experiments and make new theories. Another one of my
thought are that scientist will prove previous theories wrong.
The
continuation of scientist finding out more theories and furthering previous
experiment is a big possibility. This is likely to happen because since about
200 BC scientist and philosophers have been making theories about Earth and how
things on Earth work as well as in the Universe. One of the earliest examples of
these theories was Aristotle. Aristotle thought that the Earth was stationary
and that the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars moved in circular orbits
around the earth. Then in the 2nd century ad , Ptolemy made a model which
elaborated the theory made by Aristotle. In his model \"The earth stood at the
center, surrounded by eight spheres that carried the moon, the sun, the stars
and the 5 planets known at the time. Years and years after all these first
theories of how the universe was setup scientist found that all the planets
revolve around the sun. This is an example of how was seems so simple now like
how the planets work was so complicated to our predecessors, and as for what I
think, what we find so complicated right now will be so simple in later decades.
I also believe that in the 21st century scientist will prove that
previous theories that were made by scientist are false. Stephen Hawking sums
this up by saying \"At the beginning of this century, it was thought that
everything could be explained in terms of properties and continues matter which
shows how quickly things can change in the world of science, because of this Max
Baron put it this way \"it is possible for physics as we know it to be over in
six months\" because theories change so quickly that physics may not be where it
is now in six months.
Therefore I think that in the 21st exactly what
will happen I cannot predict but from my knowledge I can tell you that theories
will get proved wrong and new ones will be made and scientist will continue
their drive to learn more about and understand physics.