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SC300-07 Big Ideas in Science

SC300-07 Big Ideas in Science. James Stevens MS RD Adjunct Faculty Department of Science School of General Education. Unit 2 Seminar: Uncertainty & The Black Hole 1/11/12. Notable Quote. “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” Steven Wright US comedian and actor. Today’s Topics.

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SC300-07 Big Ideas in Science

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  1. SC300-07 Big Ideas in Science James Stevens MS RD Adjunct Faculty Department of Science School of General Education Unit 2 Seminar: Uncertainty & The Black Hole 1/11/12

  2. Notable Quote “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” Steven Wright US comedian and actor

  3. Today’s Topics • Uncertainty in Science • The mystery and science of black holes

  4. Uncertainty • What examples of uncertainty exist in your daily life?

  5. Uncertainty • What examples of uncertainty exist in your daily life? • How do you “reconcile” that uncertainty?

  6. Uncertainty • What examples of uncertainty exist in your daily life? • How do you “reconcile” that uncertainty? • What uncertainties have you observed in the scientific world?

  7. Nutritional Uncertainties

  8. Nutritional Uncertainties

  9. Identify the uncertainty(ies) in this picture?

  10. Evaluating uncertainty • The 95% confidence interval describes how repeated measurements fall closer to the average (mean)

  11. Scientific Report of CI

  12. Outliers

  13. A Black Hole: An Unwelcome Place

  14. A Black Hole: A really bad 70’s movie

  15. A Black Hole: An Unwelcome Place

  16. Black Holes What is the biggest obstacle to proving that black holes really do exist?

  17. Black Holes What kinds of evidence are there that they do?

  18. Black holes

  19. Black holes

  20. M47: X-Ray Signal PresenceElusive intermediate mass black hole

  21. Black holes

  22. Black holes

  23. Black Holes Given what you know about scientific inquiry, why is the lack of direct evidence for black holes a problem for scientists?

  24. Black holes

  25. Hubble: The First Decade

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