Sunday, May 24, 2015

Oswald J. Castro Rivera: Thanks, Isaac Newton & Albert Einstein!

The universe is a highly complex and fascinating place. Everything is so intriguing and beautiful, starting from the things that today we already known up to the phenomena in nature that we do not understand yet and are a mystery to the human being. It is exciting to know how everything in the universe works so perfectly and in total harmony. Thanks to the study of physics and great scientists who devoted their lives to study the mysteries of the phenomena of nature, today we understand more about how everything works in the universe. 
                
The study of physics is extremely important and fascinating because basically everything that happens around us in our daily lives can be explained by the laws of physics. Also physics has been one of the most useful tools for humans to evolve. Even the technologies we use every day for transportation and our daily basis are thanks to the discoveries made by the physicists who dedicated their whole lives to the study of the natural phenomena in our planet and the entire universe. Is so amazing to know how things work around us and even more exciting, knowing why everything is so perfectly arranged in this way. 
               
Is interesting to know how Isaac Newton discovered many important laws of physics during his lifetime. For many people, he is considered the greatest genius that has existed in history. In an article I read some time ago I found that Isaac Newton was intrigued about the phenomena of nature more than anything, needless to say, he devoted much of his life studying it. He exposed many significant laws about physics and contributed with Gottfried Leibniz to the creation of the branch of mathematics known as calculus. Those findings helps greatly to the development of new technologies in today modern world and remain being the main useful tool for scientists and engineers, even though they were invented a long time ago.
               
Another story that I found inspirational is that of Albert Einstein. He was just a curious man that had the desire to understand more about the unknown. Sometime after, he become one of the most renowned physicists of our planet and even came to be considered a genius. One of the things that inspire me the most about him is that despite all of his failures during his life to explain the theory of relativity, he never gave up until he found a valid explanation and at the end with his perseverance he found it. 
               
In the articles and biographies that I have read during my life of some of the most prodigious physicists in history, I've noticed that curiosity and the desire to find answers to the unknown is basically the foundation of physics. The vast majority of these physicists were curious persons that liked understanding more about the mysteries of nature; even they were willing to sacrifice their entire lives just to accomplish their objectives of understanding more about it. With their perseverance and a lot of patience, they accomplished things that others could not do. We always see the great achievements of these great physicists and scientists, but rarely we look at the suffering and hard work that each one performed in order to achieve their goals.
             
Sometimes I think how our world would be today if any of these laws of physics and advanced math had not been discovered. Our present world would look a lot different than how it really looks today. Maybe we wouldn't have the methods of transportation we have today, or the technology that we use every day; we wouldn't know how the universe looks like or how it works, furthermore, humans would not be able to go outer space. We have to thank all of these geniuses that dedicated their time to find all this amazing discoveries.

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