Physical Science

It is all in the “trans” when it comes to comparing transparency with translucence. Both terms describe objects that allow light waves to pass through, but the difference is vast, when it comes to being able to look at the…
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Like Dr. Michio Kaku in the book “Physics of the Impossible”, I believe that time travel is possible but unlike him, I don’t believe in parallel universes. I hope to show that the combination of belief in time travel/disbelief in…
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Richard Feynman is a Nobel-winning scientist who worked with Oppenheimer and Einstein on the atomic bomb, was a professor at Cornell, and gave lectures on physics throughout the world. He also has a sense of humor and can write. This…
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Water is a polar molecule. The force of attraction between positively charged hydrogen atoms on one water molecule and the negatively charged oxygen atom on another water molecule results in intermolecular forces. The intermolecular force is called a hydrogen bond….
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It is the nature of physicists to be able to see relationships between natural phenomena.  This is most clearly and simply done through a graphical analysis, where one quantity that changes will be plotted on the x-axis of a graph,…
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The Noble Prize winner Ernest Rutherford was born on 30 August 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. His parents, James and Martha had a large family of seven sons and five daughters. Ernest was their second son and fourth child. At…
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The recent advancements in NASA solar observation satellites have greatly improved mankind’s ability to find out more about what happens when Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) occur on the sun. In 2009, twin satellites were able, for the first time, to…
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SORCE is the abbreviation for a NASA-sponsored satellite mission, the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, launched in 2003, which provides measurements of incoming radiation of all sorts – x-ray, ultraviolet, near-infrared, and total solar.  This mission is actually the merging…
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A coronal mass ejection occurs when the Earth’s outer atmosphere, or corona, experiences a solar flare.  The corona is the part of the sun that emits rays and spreads warmth and light to the Earth.  During a solar flare, part…
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Nibiru is a planet of the solar system that cannot be found on any astronomical chart, nor can it be viewed through any telescope or spotted by any form of deep space radar or other detection device. But although it cannot…
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