QQC #5

"In 1665 an outbreak of the plague caused the university to close, and Newton returned to his home in the country, where he remained until 1667. There, in two years of rustic solitude- from age 22 to 24- his creative genius burst forth in a flood of discoveries unmatched in the history of human thought..."

That's weird I think I would work better at a campus full of people exploring and trying to learn things. Instead of back in the country with not that much to do.

How bored could he have been out there in the country to learn all of these things instead of at a university?

QQC #4

"...in the company of men such as the economist Adam Smith,the chemist Joseph Black, and the philosopher David Hume, as well as such occasional visiting sparks as Benjamin Franklin and James Watt."

How cool is that, all these famous people all meeting together to discuss theories and ideas. I knew a lot of them were around the same time but I didn't know they would meet up and do this. This sounds awesome and would have been great to be at one of those meetings.

One question I have is I wonder if they didn't all work off of each other and have these meetings if they would have gotten some major idea's from one another that they came up with.

QQC#3

"Almost at once things began to go wrong, sometimes spectacularly so."

That just sounds bad like it is delightful to watch someone die or find out how they died. I'm amazed at how these people were able to find out how the world was shaped and the size way back then. This article was alright, some of the writing bugged me chapter three was way better.

I don't know if most people do this in grade school or something but how where they able to find out the earths shape and how it moves and all these things way back then?

QQC #2

"To reach it by spaceship would take at least
twenty-five thousand years"

This is very dissapointing we can see all of this stuff and even if we do see life we cant even meet them in personj.

Shouldn't there be someway to travel like those perfectly perseved animals in ice or something else that are still alive. Just freeze someone and somehow defrost themselves after 20,000 years of travel.

Blog #1

"for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you."

I think this can be fascinating to some people and I guess I can see how it is useful to know for the greater of human kind. However this stuff just bugs me. It's down to stuff so small that we can't see and it seems like were going to too small of particles. I don't know why but it get's under my skin and I don't really like studying it at all.