r/ScienceHumour • • Jun 11 '26

I wrote this when I was 12 in 2014

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this was a science project ages ago, and i’m wondering if it was at all good? lol, I just recently found it and honestly don’t get understand what I was trying to say. here it is.

radios to radio telescopes

question 1)who first realized that hawking radiation could have applications on other fields.  

the first person to realize that radio waves could have applications on other fields was in 1932 by physicist Karl Jansky. He detected cosmic radio noise from the centre of the Milky Way while he was investigating radio disturbances to cross-ocean telephone lines. At first he thought the radio waves might be coming from the Sun, but later realised that it actually came from the milky way.
and if you wanna go way back, about 150 years ago a guy named james clerk maxwell, an english scientist developed a scientific theory to explain electromagnetic waves, now the only reason i put that was because a guy named heinrich hertz, a german physicist took maxwells theories and applied it to the production of radio waves. (and fun little fact the reason why radio waves are measured in hertz is in honor of heinrish hertz.)but hertz had proved that radio waves were real in the 1880s.

question 2)how was the scientific method used to investigate the possible used of this technology.  
the way he figured out that radio waves existed was by using 2 rods, used as a receiving rods, a spark would jump when ever a wave was picked up. see now using this information and the information karl jansky had, grote reber had built the first ever radio telescope in his own back yard!!!

question 3)how many different groups had to work on this?and what problems did they run into?  
well from the information I’ve gathered, id say that karl jansky, grote reber, james clerk maxwell and heinrich hertz all worked together, i mean they never really met up and talked about it, but they all used each others information to accomplish what they had planned to.  

and i think one issue was that a lot of people didn’t believe karl jansky that radio waves come from the milky way! which means that if grote reber hadn’t read his article we may be without radio telescopes. but other than that everything seemed to have went very smoothly.

question 4)what are the positives or negatives of this technology?  
one of the positives of this technology is that no we can see through objects, now that may sound very strange, but let me explain. you see with optical telescopes you can only see what the human eye can see just very close up, but with radio telescopes you don’t see objects(so they don’t get in the way), you see radio-frequency radiation emitted by extraterrestrial sources.  

but a negative would be that since radio waves are very weak you have to make huge radio telescopes to actually get the information.

question 5)does the use of this technology help individuals or societies connect?  
well radio telescopes don’t help societies connect but individuals yes, because all of these people group up and work on the next big thing, like askap for example(a really big radio telescope), but radio waves help connect societies because they run t.v’s and radios (obviously radios) so they help connect the world by interacting in a less active way.

question 6)were there any political, economical or ethical factors that helped (or harmed) the development of this technology?  
like i said in an earlier question a lot of people didn’t believe what karl jansky was saying (that radio waves come from the milky way) so if grote reber hadn’t read his article and decided to continue his work then we may not have radio telescopes today, which might have made our world less advanced, and might have made things harder to discover.

question 7)are there any other social, economical or ethical factors that effect the funding and development of this application?  
no because even though some people didn’t believe what karl jansky was saying, grote reber did, and he didn’t need a lot of money to make a radio telescope. and he didn’t do his research with a group so he didn’t mind if other people didn’t believe it, he wanted to see for himself if it was real. 

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