Physical Science

While atomic orbitals are often understood in the Bohr model as if they were analogous to planetary orbitals, or are explained as wave motions in quantum mechanical terms, there is an unpublished approach to understanding electronic orbital structures which might…
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Limonene. What is it? Limonene is from a family of hydrocarbons produced by plants-known as terpenes. Limonene is an orange terpene. Terpenes are present in essential oils, especially citrus oils, which in turn can be used for many things such…
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Arecibo Observatory is a distinctive, massive 305-metre (1000-foot) radio telescope located in Puerto Rico, and the largest single-dish telescope ever built. Since construction was completed in 1963, the observatory has been used to make important discoveries in radio astronomy as…
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The Arecibo Broadcast was a message broadcast from the massive Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, in 1974, to the M13 globular star cluster. It will reach that cluster in about 25,000 years, although, of course, it is not known whether…
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Throughout recorded history the scientifically inclined have always felt suppression. In ancient Greece the growing scientific movement was replaced by a growing mathematical and thought-centered movement. Anaximander and Democritus’ experimentation and observation was overthrown by Plato and Pathagoreus’ school of…
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Quantum physics is the study of subatomic particles and their properties. The electron is represented by a probability cloud surrounding a nucleus, this cloud is said to represent the probability of where an electron might be at any given time….
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What is a Chemical/Biological Threat? Chemical/Biological threats are an ever-growing concern in our modern societies. Whether it’s a terrorist with an aerosol can full of weaponized Anthrax gas or a large-scale dirty-bomb detonated by a rival sovereign state, the threat…
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Fuel Emissions: studying the differences between petroleum and biodiesel exhaust emission A growing concern over the environmental effects of diesel and diminishing natural resources has lead to the development of biodiesel. Biodiesel has promising potential as eventually replacing most of…
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In some fashions of expression, stars do not “evolve,” they change through stages. If you count the pre-stellar material, then that is the stuff that “evolves,” in the the traditional sense of the term. Yet, if we call that evolution,…
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The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is a radio astronomy facility that includes the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, some 300 metres across and is operated by Cornell University on behalf of the United States National Science Foundation….
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