Physical Science

This article on nuclear fusion is to help the people who aren’t very scientific, who would like to know just how nuclear energy works as it is a prime issue in today’s society. Hopefully this will also raise questions and…
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“I’m picking up good vibrations” If you can remember when that Beach Boys song came out you are of the same vintage as me! In the thirty odd years since then we have been offered more advances in technology than…
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Gigahertz is the unit of a frequency. Frequency is the number of complete cycle per unit time. Imagine you are going around something, lets say a pole, and you take 2 seconds to make complete cycle around it, ie you…
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I’m not really a comic book fan, computer geek, nerd…not the typical person you would associate with such fantastic topics such as invisibility, magic, and walking through solid objects. I have always been interested in what science and technology could…
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Magnetic Poles “He who controls magnets controls the universe” All magnets have a north and south pole. If the north (seeking) pole is brought close to the south (seeking) pole, they attract one another. If like poles are brought too…
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Hello, all. Time has been defined in many ways, but I don’t feel that time should be considered so abstract. Is air abstract? Even if you can’t see it the answer is no. Is deoxygenated blood abstract? Though you can’t…
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Will we ever be able to explore the universe, travel to other worlds and find new races? In this article I explore this. Worm Holes and Faster Than Light travel have been used in Science Fiction for a long time….
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LightLight originates from the accelerated motion of electric charges. It consists of waves and forms part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is a form of energy capable of stimulating the light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye.The amount of…
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The world is awash with machines, but most of these have evolved from, or still use the basic principles of 5 simple machines. These are: – 1) Pulleys – Pulleys allow you to move loads or objects that would prove…
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What a strange notion – that there is a temperature below which it does not make sense to talk about temperature.  Why can a body not have lower and lower temperature, and what sets the temperature we call ‘absolute zero’? …
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