首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] Today most astronomers accept the notion that groups of stars t
[originaltext] Today most astronomers accept the notion that groups of stars t
游客
2024-01-21
37
管理
问题
Today most astronomers accept the notion that groups of stars that make up the universe are all moving farther and farther away from each other. But until very recently, this idea of an expanding universe was not a theory most European scholars believed in. (20) Since ancient times and up to about the 17th century, most of these scholars thought the size of the universe had remained unchanged since the moment of its creation or perhaps forever, with all the stars remaining more or less in place in relation to each other. But that was challenged in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton’s idea of gravity as a force of attraction, which contradicted the idea of a universe that is static, unchanging. (21) If gravity causes all the stars out there in space to attract each other as Newton said, then they could remain centrally motionless. Sooner or later all the stars will fall in towards each other. Well, scientists then proposed a new model, taking Newton’s theory into account. They didn’t want to abandon the idea of motionless stars, but for this model to work, so the stars wouldn’t fall in each other. They had to modify Newton’s law of gravity, so they theorized that for distance as large as those between stars, the gravitational force repels rather than attracts. As you might guess, this led to some other contradictions. But this was prettily resolved in the past centuries by the currently accepted theory, which says the universe is continuously expanding.
20. What theory challenged the idea about the size of the universe?
21. What will happen if it is gravity that causes all the stars in space to attract each other?
22. What is the speaker mainly talking about?
选项
A、Isaac Newton’s law of gravity.
B、The theory of induced gravity.
C、Le Sage’s theory of gravitation.
D、Three laws of motion.
答案
A
解析
短文指出,从古代到17世纪,大多数的学者认为从宇宙形成之日起,它的大小就从没有变化过,但是这种想法在17世纪晚期受到了牛顿重力学说的挑战。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3381082.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:MayIcomein?M:Comein,please.Doyouknowwhattimeitis
[originaltext]W:Mike,doyouhaveaminute?M:Oh,hi,Cathy.Sure.What’sup?
[originaltext]W:Mike,doyouhaveaminute?M:Oh,hi,Cathy.Sure.What’sup?
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.I’mnotsurewhetheryoucanhelpme
[originaltext]M:Excuseme,isthistheaddepartment?W:Sureis.CanIhelpy
随机试题
•Readthearticlebelowabouttechnicalwriters.•Foreachquestion31-40writ
Manyyearshad______beforetheyreturnedtotheiroriginalurbanareas.A、float
Thereissomuchtrafficthatevenifweleavenow,theshow______bythetimewe
[A]immune[I]nomination[B]perpetually[J]independent[C]challenge[K]d
Fillintheblankstocompletetheword,clockwiseoranti-clockwise.[img]2019m
侧伏坐位适宜取A.头部一侧、面颊及耳前后部位的腧穴 B.身体侧面腧穴和上、
阿托品治疗虹膜炎的机制是A.抑制细菌繁殖 B.抑制炎症细胞浸润 C.抑制严重
历史上,不属于国际收支自动调节机制演进的主要阶段有()。A.金本位制度调节
RLC串联电路中,在电容C上再并联一个电阻R1,则电路的谐振频率将( )。A.
矿井涌水量预测方法主要包括()。A.涌水量与水位降深曲线法 B.顶板高度法
最新回复
(
0
)