Гвоздева Тхе Цосмос 2011

10. I was excited about the discoveries that have been made in the last twenty-five years.

TEST

I. Translate the sentences.

1.The classical theory predicts that the electrons would radiate electromagnetic waves. These waves would carry away energy and would cause the electrons to spiral into the nucleus.

2.The difference between the classical physics and the modern one is that between logical and illogical physics.

3.The universe is a puzzle to be guessed.

4.The heat released generates a pressure that enables the sun to resist the attraction of its own gravity.

5.In order to formulate this idea, Hawking introduces the concept of imaginary time.

6.The neutrino was thought to have no mass of its own, but observations have suggested that the neutrino may have a small mass.

7.The early universe must have been very smooth and non-turbulent.

8.There can be baby universes that contain only a few particles.

9.Collections of stars and gas would fly apart if they contained only the stars and gas that we can observe directly.

10.One can expect the gravitational attraction between different galaxies to be slowing down the rate of expansion.

11.Our present variants of a complete unified theory contain a number of quantities, like the size of the electric charge on a particle. The values of these quantities cannot be predicted by our theories. Instead, they have to be chosen to agree with observations.

Exercise 2

Give Russian correspondence:

beyond, a study, so, like, even though, an effect, close (near), because of, any, other than, either …. or, the only, specific, rather, hardly, a great deal of, even if, whereas, before, particular, in spite of, at least, unless, from, directly, as, unless, it follows, therefore, a way, actually, an effect, the farther ……., the faster …., to be due, in terms of (by), eventually, to make somebody do something, so, certain, both …. and, the rest of, to fail to do, too + Adj., otherwise, the same, although

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Exercise 3

Formulate your ideas on one of the topics:

1.The age of the universe.

2.Dark matter and dark energy.

3.Europa

4.Titan

5.Panspermia

6.Intelligent life in the universe other than on earth.

7.Order and chaos

8.Earth is a unique planet.

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