Second year English lesson .1 the Dying Sun

                   The Dying Sun

Sir James Jeans

1.      How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it?

Answer:

The universe is so vast that the average distance between the stars is of millions of miles. This is why that a wandering star wandering through space seldom finds another star near it.

2.      What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through space, came near the sun?

Answer:

When a wandering star wandering through space came near the Sun, it raised huge tides of the boiling matter on the surface of the sun.

3.      What happened when the wandering star came nearer and nearer?

Answer :

As the wandering star came nearer and nearer, the waves of the boiling matter took the form of a high mountain. When the tidal pull got unbearable, with a bang the mountain of boiling matter broke into pieces. These pieces scattered into the space and began revolving round the Sun.

4.      What are the planets and how did they come into existence?

Answer:

The planets are the heavenly bodies that revolve round the Sun. Planets came into existence as the result of the Big Bang caused by that wandering star.

5.      Why is there no life on the stars?

Answer:

The temperature on the stars is too hot that life cannot exist on them. Life for its existence needs a moderate temperature.

6.      Write a note on the beginning of life on the earth?

Answer

In the beginning the temperature of the earth was very high but with the passage of time it cooled down. After this long process when the temperature got moderate, somewhere a simple organism developed. In this way a stream of life started on the earth .

7.      Why is the universe, of which our Earth is a part, so frightening? Give as many reasons as you can?

Answer:

The universe is frightening in the sense that we are the part of a very vast universe. We are alone in this vast universe. Scientific studies reveal that still no sign of life has been found on any other stars or planet.

8.      What in your opinion should be the conditions necessary, for the kind of the life we know to exist on other heavenly bodies? Do such conditions generally exist?

Answer:

A balanced temperature and atmosphere is needed for the existence of life on other planets. Temperature should not be too hot that life could melt nor too cold that life could be frozen.