time, space, and gravity.

From what i hear Issac Newton was sitting under a tree one day and an apple fell from the tree. He wondered why the apple went down not up or just floated there. So he started doing experiments to explain this. i do not really know what test he did but they were proven correct. later in 1915 Albert Einstein wanted to know why gravity happened. this theory was called the theory of relativity. basically what Albert was saying is that space is like a blanket, flat and spread out. For example the sun, is sitting on the blanket making a dip in the blanket and the our planets are going in circles around the sun using the decline. I think of it like the planets using the dip as like a bowl people skate in and they go around in circles. I do not know if that helps but it makes sense to me. I watched a TED video about space and from that it made me want to know more so i went to YouTube. that is where i learned about the theory of relativity.



Learning about the theory of relativity i also learned about the speed of light and time. the speed of light is a really interesting thing. If you had two space ships that went the speed of light and made one go half the speed of light and had the other one just stay there and turn on a really powerful flashlight. You would figure that the person in the space ship going half the speed of light would see the beam of light slowly go by but since the the speed of light is the same speed no matter what; the person would just see the light like any normal light turning on. One thing that was amazing to learn was that if you could go faster then the speed of light, then you start to go in to the future, or time travel. but the thing is, and im not really sure if i fully understand this but if you go faster then the speed of light then your mass gets bigger? i am not really sure if that right or even how to explain it. i will look that up and post a new blog about it and anything new that i learn. this are only some of the things that go on in space, time, and that stuff. there are so many things that go on in space that are really cool to learn about. its interesting to me to read this because it explains alot about how things work and why they happen.