Physical Science

The world of astronomy and space science is filled with pages full of men and women who made enormous contributions to the advancement of these studies and to the development of the space program as we know it now. A…
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The image of Jesus pops up in some pretty strange places. It’s appeared on Dorito chips that fetch $300 on eBay and seen on grease stains under freeway viaducts. The latest incarnation of the biblical figure is the Moon. Although…
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The theory of relative time arose through the six classic pillars of science: a field observation, supporting verifiable measurement, explained by a relevant theory (paradigm), a follow-up experiment, which, failing to support the relevant theory, led to its overthrow and…
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The explanations for Special Relativity given by others tell the results of applying Einstein’s Special Relativity ideas. However, there is a slightly different view on Einstein’s work. The term, “Relativity” is a statement of the fact that information is relative…
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Dark Energy When Einstein was making his historic discoveries and deductions about the nature of the our Universe, his General Theory of Relativity predicted that the combined gravitational energy of the all the matter in the Universe should be pulling…
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OK, having read the other articles in this category, I have to respond. Some of the writers are completely WRONG in what they have written and others are right on.I am qualified to respond to this subject based on years…
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On March 4, 1879, in the city of Ulm in Wurttemberg, Germany, a person was born who would shake the foundations of Newtonian physics Albert Einstein. Julian Schwinger writes, “Just as Isaac Newton dominated the scientific scene in the seventeenth…
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Maybe Helium should start a “What will they think of next?” category. Really, it would make sense. The 21st Century is shaping up to be an era that’s bringing everything that was once exclusively in the realm of science fiction…
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  What would it be like to turn invisible at will? Sounds too good to be true, right? Like something straight out of a comic book or movie, right?. You’d be right to be skeptical – I was too, when…
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Edward Teller was possibly the most important political scientist of the twentieth century as his name will forever be associated with the ground breaking development of thermonuclear weapons. Teller was the key player of the atomic age from the nineteen…
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