Bryson Reading Chapter 2-3

"Lowelrs other abiding conviction was that there existed, somewhere

out beyond Neptune, an undiscovered ninth planet, dubbed Planet X Lowell

based this belief on irregularities he detected in the orbits of Uranus

and Neptune, and de,voted the last years of his life to trying to find the

gassy giant he was certain was out there."

I like this comment because it shows an actual person, and their dedication to something as well as their curiosity. You probably have to be very curious and ambitious to suspect that there is a ninth planet, planet x, and to actual spend the rest of your life looking for that plant until you die, thats a big sign of dedication. He was really after finding that planet, and he didn't give up.

Is planet X one of those gigantic planets that we saw in the video on the first week of this class? I remember it went past pluto or something the sun maybe, and the planets or starts, whatever they were, were just getting so big. Bigger than you can imagine.

Introduction

Quote: And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other poaint thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and of off to be other things. And thats it for you.

Questions: Is there a definite amount of atoms in the universe? Do more grow, or is it always the same number of atoms?

Commentary: I think the article is interesting how they describe how atoms just work the way they do without thinking, and without them we'd be nothing. Its also interesting how, by itself, an atom is just some tiny particle of dust, so its wierd how a bunch of what we'd think to be 'nothings' are what we are made up of.