When a Hole in the Atmosphere Isn't Called Space
Go read it if it fancies you, but don’t tell me I did not warn you.
The salt of the story is — Herschel telescope spots giant hole in space.
I am not sure what they mean by hole in space — isn’t the space itself a giant hole? Reading the story did not reveal much to me except that apparently they were talking of a hole through a newly born star.
Scientists are all excited about this discovery since it may provide a new glimpse at the end of the star-forming process. The hole is not really in the space though, it is through the clouds that make up the Rosette nebula, which are 5,000 light-years from our homes. If that is the case, why don’t they say so?
Reading this article I was wondering how things are getting highly specialized. And every specialized field has its special lingo that turns on light bulbs for the right person just at the drop of the word. Where as, to someone who is not very familiar with that field, it doesn't mean anything.
We all probably know that stars are born, have a certain life and then they die — much like human beings, or any other planets, or any living beings for that matter.
However, is there really anything in the universe that is dead; or as we say “totally dead?” If there is a fine line that separates living from the dead, that line is getting thinner and thinner as human race progresses.
We now know that even inside a dead stone, inside every atom of it, there are very small particles called electrons that are whirling at tremendous speed around their respective nuclei—formed by some other tiny particles called protons and neutrons. And even those are not the smallest particles; scientists go down to even finer particles called quarks to get to the basic building blocks.
It is all however, a vacuum; the stone gets its shape from the conglomeration of molecules and atoms, and the atoms are atoms because of the space maintained by the orbiting electrons around their nuclei. Without that motion the stone would collapse into nothing.
To think that those same electrons and protons that are in us, which make us "alive" are also in the "dead" stone, then is the stone really dead?
Is there really anything called, space, hole, or, is it just our perception and limitation of our language to describe them in their true meaning?
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