Physical Science

THE LIGHT WE LIVE BYImagine you are like a tree, and any hairs on your human body are the leaves. These leaves act as receptors with absorb into their shafts, right through to the roots within our human tissues, and…
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Time Travel: A Figment of the Imagination It is a tempting scenario: step onto a hi-tech captain’s bridge straight out of Star Trek; strap yourself into a comfortable reclining seat in front of a complex control panel; push a few…
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The hardest thing to get your mind around concerning time is that it is not solely a subjective awareness of an action’s ‘duration’, or the ‘direction’ of duration. Time is as much an elementary property of matter as physical dimensions,…
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Dyson spheres are ranked with space elevators and warp drives when it comes to far-fetched ideas and lack of public support, in part because of several variants, with a broad spectrum of feasibility and efficiency, that are floating around, and…
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Inquiring into Motion Middle school students love to complete hands-on activities, like building fan cars, allowing them to develop a personal connection to the activity. That is why this project is excellent for studying “motion.” This is a hands-on inquiry-based…
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Science and technology in the 21st Century is rapidly fulfilling the visions of the science fiction writers of the 20th Century. It seems barely a week passes without some amazing new discovery, revelation, or feat. Recently, scientists announced the once…
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In the twenties and thirties, Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein, a youngster named Feinman, anda professor named Oppenheimer, and at least twelve other scientists, all of whom had the concept of the power in the atom firmly in mind…were appalled when…
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The Standard Model is an imaginative invention which seems to somehow work, perhaps because, when it doesn’t fit, another imaginative group of speculative forces, or other units is added on. Since the Standard model does not address the problem of…
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In 2012, the Sun is entering the highest activity period of its 22-year cycle, so the next few years are certain to produce some memorable solar storms. The Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere deal well with mild to moderate solar…
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In the field of electronics theory, the direct current, or DC circuit is usually the first circuit studied. A DC circuit consists of only a few of the most basic components: a source of electromotive force, a method of connecting…
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