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Solar System to scale

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Dear Students, The vastness of space is almost too mind-boggling for the human brain to comprehend. In order to accurately illustrate our place in the Universe, one group of friends decided to build the first scale model of the Solar System in seven miles of empty desert. Watch a beautiful representation of our Universe come together in light and space in this extraordinary short film. Thank you.

Continental Drift Theory by Alfred Wegener

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Dear Students, Continental Drift describes one of the earliest ways geologist thought continents moved over time. Today, the Theory of Continental Drift has been replaced by the science of Plate Tectonics. Below is a video explaining the Theory of Continental Drift propounded by Alfred Wegener and the evidences he gave to support his theory. Thank you.

Origin of the Universe-The Big Bang

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Dear Students, It is difficult to say how earth originated. As a matter of fact, nobody has been able to give the exact cause and time of the origin of the earth so far. It is still a debatable question. Different scholars have expressed different views on the subject, but m ost  astronomers believe the Universe began in a Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. At that time, the entire Universe was inside a bubble that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. It was hotter and denser than anything we can imagine. Then it suddenly exploded. The Universe that we know was born. Time, space and matter all began with the Big Bang. In a fraction of a second, the Universe grew from smaller than a single atom to bigger than a galaxy. And it kept on growing at a fantastic rate. It is still expanding today. As the Universe expanded and cooled, energy changed into particles of matter and antimatter. These two opposite types of particles largely destroyed each other. But some matter surv