Physical Science

There is a lot of intrigue about Mars in our world today. It is part of the great unknown of space, and that leads to all types of speculation and curiosity about it. Mars is the 4th planet from the…
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UNIVERSITY DEGREE ‘S & SOTU’ .Beginning the search on the theory of everything. Some-one with a great mind once said that, “we only begin to learn when we realize we know nothing.” At least this is a good beginning, to…
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I’ve been lucky enough to watch two total solar eclipses in my life. The first was in the 70’s in Victoria, southern Australia. I was studying astronomy at the time, and our whole class was bussed to a good high…
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Over the years, the world-famous physicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking, has presented a new look at many perceptions of the world and space. Born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo and holding the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics post…
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Your lab partner spilled the bottle of alcohol all over the floor again, only this time a nearby Bunsen burner set it ablaze and you’re standing right in the middle of it all.  Good thing you weren’t wearing your favorite…
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Another asteroid has been detected barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth. The asteroid, 2011 AG5 may pass so close to our planet it could skim Earth’s atmosphere—even impact with an explosive force equal to an atomic blast. Current…
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Orgone energy was first proposed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who saw it as a bioenergetic force that spans the universe and causes everything that goes on around us, all observable phenomena. Reich saw sexuality as the prime energetic force of…
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Aliens have visited earth many times. But so far, it is always in the imaginations of a species desperate for answers and connection to the cosmos. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.  Nevertheless, no truly compelling evidence such…
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The distance from moon’s perigee to its apogee and back varies from day to day, if not minute to minute. The distance changes primarily because of the elliptical path the moon traverses on its orbit around the earth. To determine…
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Percival Lowell, at the beginning of the 20th century, saw canals on the surface of the planet Mars. These canals, Lowell said, had been made by intelligent beings.He gazed through the 24-inch refracting telescope at the observatory he founded in…
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