Physical Science

How to make a solar powered water battery Wouldn’t it be nice if we could meet our rising energy demands using sources that are clean and abundant. Ohh say . . . . water and the sun. Well that dream…
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Anything you see around you, that takes up space and has mass (volume), is matter. Examples are a table, chair, tree, plants, animals and even the air we breathe. They are all forms of matter.  Matter is made of atoms…
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Direct current and Alternating current are common terms used to describe the two forms of electricity we use every day in countless different situations. These terms are applied to many different types of devices we have come to take for…
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There are many theories on the possibility of time travel, ranging from clueless guesses to careful, informed decisions. This, along with many years of science fiction writing and movies, has clouded the debate somewhat. I am fascinated by science, from…
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  All of our concepts and experiences in life, including time, are relative and yet still ‘real’.  And while space-time banishes temporal time from its formulas, such theoretical circumstances do not banish the reality of time from our experiences because…
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Ancient Roman road construction lessonsFor modern engineers Can it be possible that ancient Roman engineers were ahead of their modern day counterparts in some areas? I’ve read recently that we have not been giving ancient societies enough credit for their…
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To begin, I would like to point out the faulty labeling of the two sides of this argument. As it is stated, it implies that believing in the relativity of time denotes a disbelief in time being real. A better…
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I am no scientist, and cannot make this article overly complicated, full of high brow definition and literary recitals of einsteins theorum, or any other scientist for that matter. What I can provide is a more feasable explanation for my…
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When explaining thermal expansion of a substance it is helpful to understand that, at least to my knowledge, there are two types of thermal expansion: Linear and Volumetric. Linear expansion is what happens when you have a solid rod of…
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There are various approaches to creating a fusion reaction. There is laser fusion, microwave fusion, and fission/fusion which combines charged particles, particle beams, and compression fields to produce a controlled fusion reaction. And not all fusion reactions produce helium and…
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