Physical Science

To assert we are alone in the universe is to assume that all we know is all there is.  There is no science on earth that goes by that assumption. Even cosmology itself, and nuclear physics is based on the…
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Comets are both strange and interesting objects. They vary in size and brightness, with some being so dim they can barely be seen with a telescope and others that are so bright that they can be easily seen with the…
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Comets are commonly referred to as ‘dirty snowballs’ because of the knowledge that they contain rock, dust and water ice. It is also widely thought that it may have been comets that brought the building blocks of life to Earth….
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A comet is a collection of dust, rocks, ice, and frozen gases which is between half a mile and 100 miles in diameter. A comet’s tail does not exist for nearly all of the comet’s orbit. It won’t appear at…
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Comets herald the death of great men. Shakespeare says so in the play Julius Caesar, “When beggars die there are no comets seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” The Bard was referring to history, or at…
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In 1961, Frank Drake of the National Astronomy And Ionosphere Center devised a mathematical equation for the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy that could support life. The equation has several drawbacks, including the difficulty of finding the…
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When one thinks of the Nobel Prize generally, the mind goes to the great discoveries such as the double helix of DNA, x-rays, the decoding of the human genome and others dramatic discoveries. In many ways though, the most important…
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Amazed astronomers discovered massive stellar superflares that could swallow up Earth with one fiery gulp. The incredible images of stars similar in size to the sun, reveals superflares up to 10,000 times more powerful than the coronal mass ejections the…
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It is wrong to think of space as being completely devoid of anything. The noted Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei has suggested that the density of matter in the deepest regions of space between the galaxies is in the order of…
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This theory proposes that it is possible that the Terran Solar System is older than the center of the universe. Applying the idea of a universe that expanded to what it is now from the Big Bang Theory and the…
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