Physical Science

There are little surprises more treasured in the night sky than the sudden stream of light seen streaking across the darkness only to disappear as soon as it comes. This ball of rock that burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere…
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Beyond Earth orbit, the units of measurement we use on the surface of our planet rapidly become quite inadequate to deal with the vast distances of stellar and interstellar space. Our nearest planetary neighbour, Mars, is “just” 50 million miles…
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Time is the very special existence created by God for humanity.It is a realm in which every thing has a beginning, an ending and a process in between. In time, each person has a starting point, conception, following which we…
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As we speak, engineers are developing new ways to revolutionize technology as a whole. The future of nanotechnology will become a reality in the coming years and soon silicon chips, terminal illnesses, and even the process of aging will all…
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Modern efforts to develop new materials for applications related to: biomedical devices/prosthetics; metallurgy; solar panels; sensors; aerospace transport and ceramics require a metric to measure quality as a means of controlling performance specifications.  Spatial defects in the chemical composition or…
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This is probably one of the most biased, opinionated and/or extrapolated about in countless books, summaries and etc, ever since that Kurzweil fellow had a hand in bringing the term into more mainstream conversation or making it up to suite…
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Scientists continue to debate faster-than-light speeds, and to search for the subatomic particles known as Tachyons. These particles would theoretically travel faster than light in air, water, space, or any other medium, and would have real energy but imaginary mass…
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There could be no more fitting a name for this glorious masterpiece of European engineering than Ariane ( The Very Holy One ). The massive rocket sat on her launchpad at the French Guianan space-port of Kourou. Tucked  securely inside her  were the 5374kg Hispasat-1E and…
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The human race is unlikely to ever reach the stars. The technical challenges are too great, the political will too weak, and the economic need too small to contemplate such a venture. Reaching for the stars is for romantic not…
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Newton’s first law (law of inertia) states that an object in motion continues to stay in motion and an object at rest continues to stay at rest as long as no outside force acts upon that object. Although the law…
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