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- How did you find PF?
- was looking for a diagram of galactic movement, google search led me here
Funny story about how I ended up here.
This morning, I was casually scrolling on my twitter feed and came across a post that had a video clip of the solar system's movement in space. (For anyone interested, this is the post: .)
Now, the last time I'd read a proper academic work on physics was in high school, and while I've always had an interest in astrophysics, I didn't quite have the opportunity to delve deep into it despite many efforts to do so (short clips on youtube, physics magazines, books, etc). So for me to visually encounter the movement of the sun was a shocker for me- the fact that the sun, which is a star, was too orbiting around something. One search led to the other and I read articles explaining that the sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way, which moves in a radial plane with the Virgo Cluster (https://www.space.com/does-the-milky-way-orbit-anything). All this was absolutely new to me and so fun to read, I had to look more into it.
I'm so excited to have found this forum and the prospect of reading and learning more. I'm late into my 20s now and have been in the humanities field for many years now, but sometimes I wonder if things might have changed had I had a more passionate physics teacher in my teenage years and continued down a science major. Do bear with my rudimentary knowledge in physics. Great to meet you all!
This morning, I was casually scrolling on my twitter feed and came across a post that had a video clip of the solar system's movement in space. (For anyone interested, this is the post: .)
Now, the last time I'd read a proper academic work on physics was in high school, and while I've always had an interest in astrophysics, I didn't quite have the opportunity to delve deep into it despite many efforts to do so (short clips on youtube, physics magazines, books, etc). So for me to visually encounter the movement of the sun was a shocker for me- the fact that the sun, which is a star, was too orbiting around something. One search led to the other and I read articles explaining that the sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way, which moves in a radial plane with the Virgo Cluster (https://www.space.com/does-the-milky-way-orbit-anything). All this was absolutely new to me and so fun to read, I had to look more into it.
I'm so excited to have found this forum and the prospect of reading and learning more. I'm late into my 20s now and have been in the humanities field for many years now, but sometimes I wonder if things might have changed had I had a more passionate physics teacher in my teenage years and continued down a science major. Do bear with my rudimentary knowledge in physics. Great to meet you all!
