Physical Science

A group of groundbreaking, international scientists called the ALPHA team successfully manipulated antimatter and measured it for the first time in history. The team nudged anti-hydrogen atoms using a tool that emitted a microwave stream. Last June 2011, Jeffrey Hangst,…
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Kids love to play tricks on their friends and physics provides the perfect opportunity. While some of the experiments might look like magic, all of them follow the physical laws that we live by every day. The study of physics…
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Perhaps the most important contribution Einstein made to our understanding of the nature of reality was the explanation of the relationship that matter has with energy. He expressed this with the equation E=mc^2, or, the amount of energy represented by…
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Airplanes use a mixture of science, construction of the wing, and the engine to generate lift. But how does science, architecture, and materials result in finding out how airplanes get lift? First of all, the science portion of of the…
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I think of time as a real thing that effects everyone, everything, and of course all ideas. Time can be measured and is a variable in many things such as living organisms, ideas, and civilization. Time can be measured in…
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All elements that have an atomic number greater than 82 are radioactive. Some isotopes of smaller elements can also be radioactive, and a lot of radioactive elements have several isotopes, making radioactivity a common phenomena. What is radiation and what…
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The secret to electric currents is metallic bonding, a property found at the microstructure level of a conductor. Metals take their properties from the way metallic atoms are joined to their neighbors. Metal atoms have extra electrons that they need…
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I am writing this article not to compete with but as a supplement to Moshe ben-Avraham’s definitive answer to the question of whether the Standard Model is the best model of our physical world because I will not pretend to…
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MYSTERIES OF THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE In 1995, researchers Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado (JILA) cooled a handful of gaseous rubidium-87 atoms (approximately 2,000) to less than one degree…
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I think we all know that there is certainly a real element to time, as it is measurable. Whether or not our modern ways of measuring time are man made is irrelevant, for the sun, moon, and seasons themselves illustrate…
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