Blog Post #10: Earth Day

Earth Day is a day celebrated in the United States, as well as, 192 other countries around the world in order to raise awareness for environmental concerns. Earth Day serves to inform the public of the impact humans have on the environment and what they can do to amend the damage they cause. The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, and was internationally recognized as Earth Day in 1990. It was created to gain support for environmental issues occurring in our world, and inform people of their importance. On Earth Day, people all around the world participate in a variety of activities to give back to the Earth and "Go Green!" However, Earth Day should serve as a reminder for people to be "Eco-friendly" in their daily lives, not become a green-going activity gathering that individuals partake in just for that one day. Earth Day is everyday!

Earth is our home and it is important to take care of it and treat it properly if we want to continue living on this beautiful planet. Everyday humans throw out recyclable items, use excessive amounts of water, and contaminate oceans with garbage. All of these actions add to pollution and harm living organisms, including our Earth, around them. However, it is never too late to act!

One activity people can partake in to conserve the Earth is recycling. It is a simple task. Instead of throwing out a bottle, can, or paper, simply recycle it into a bin so it may be collected and reused again. We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year, and most people throw them away even though there is no limit on the number of times aluminum can be recycled!

Another activity individuals can partake in is conserving water. There are so many people in this world who struggle to receive small amounts of water daily, while others are using excess amounts. We do not have an endless supply of H2O and need to use water as cautiously and carefully as we can, keeping in mind the fact that all living things need it to survive.

Finally, a popular activity many conduct for environmental protection, especially on Earth Day, is planting trees. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. We can give back and replant those trees to restore habits for animals, resources for humans, and greenery for Earth.

The Earth does so much for us, and each one of theses activities is simple, only requiring a few minutes of our day. It is time for us to give back to our motherland and celebrate Earth Day everyday!

 

Blog Post #9: White Holes

For our final project of the year on the topic of space I shall be discussing white holes. Although not my first choice, due to the wide and fascinating variety of subjects involving space, white holes are more interesting than many people feel because they are often overlooked and disregarded to black holes. Almost everyone has heard of a black hole, and understands the basic idea of what they encompass: black holes suck matter in and are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape the powerful grip of their gravitational force. White holes, on the other hand, are the exact opposite. Instead of sucking matter up, white holes spit matter out (light can escape). Nothing can enter a white hole from the outside; once matter has exited, it can not return. However, white holes, unlike black holes, have not been proven real, and many speculate their existence. 

Some physicists claim that white holes defy the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the state of entropy (or uncertainty) in the universe will increase over time and systems will only become more disordered as time increases, because scientists like Stephen Hawking theorize that white holes will eventually stabilize with their opposites, black holes, and the two will emit the same amount of energy in equilibrium. Other scientists propose that the existence of white holes can be supported by the loop quantum gravity theory, which states that space-time is made up of building block s shaped like loops, and the finite size of theses loops prevents a dying star from collapsing completely into a point of infinite density (black hole), but rather rebounding into a white hole instead. 

Despite the theory, white holes are an interesting mystery of our vast universe, and deserve recognition.