Physical Science

A group of walkers come across a cave and they saw something walk inside. Intrigued they approached the opening of the cave and one walker yelled, “HELLO?” and to their surprise, all they heard was a distorted return of the…
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On Aug. 12, 1960, Echo 1, NASA’s first communications satellite that was proficient in transmitting signals to other locations on Earth, was launched with the assistance of a balloon 1,000 miles (1,609 km) above the planet. The satellite was built by…
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In July 2010, Canadian astronomers at the University of Western Ontario announced the first evidence of naturally forming complex carbon-based compounds called fullerene, informally known as “buckyballs,” in a planetary nebula about 6500 light-years distant from our own solar system….
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A combination of a basic idea about communicatiion and an analysis of motion is seen as an indication that a possible model of existence is “motion in a matrix.” This is in the first section of this tripartite essay which…
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There is so much mystique, and so much elegant mathematics attached to Dr. Einstein’s ideas that for one to even hint in the presence of most physical scientists that there is a flaw in Relativity is like standing on a…
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The law of entropy, or the second law of thermodynamics, holds that in a closed system, entropy always increases (or remains constant, but increases in the end). The first law of thermodynamics runs that energy can be neither created nor destroyed,…
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You probably know that you have an alternator under the hood of your car, and that when it quits working, it’s a bad thing. Before figuring out how it works, let’s ask “Why is it there in the first place?”…
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The angular momentum is a physical variable that is characteristic of rotating systems.  In classical mechanics, angular momentum is associated with macroscopic objects that are rotating, such as the movement of the planets of the solar system around the sun. …
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When you try to slide a heavy object across your floor and have difficulty, you talk of friction. Or, you might be getting ready to paint and have to sand something smooth. You speak of friction making the sandpaper and…
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Not much is known about the 2008 World Science Festival in NYC. Except that this festival is going to be the first World Science Festival. It’s dubbed on the main website as “A Universe of Science in New York City.”…
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