Physical Science

Time is subjective: Time is one concept that has been studied extensively by philosophers and scientists for several hundreds of years. Yet, there are still many unresolved issues about time. Some of the issues not resolved include: what actually is…
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Carl Sagan once described time in terms of shapes of two dimensional objects. One was a triangle the other a rectangle and still another a circle (for example). He gave life to them by describing from their perspective what they…
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The existence of all mankind has evolved through the first words of the book of Genesis,”In the beginning”! God started the measurement of time and on the first day he created the Heavens and the Earth. Since the beginning man…
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The primary pragmatic obstacle to human expansion into space is unquestionably economic. The technological issues, even the issues of countering the physical stresses on the human body, CAN be overcome- if a practical motive exists to do so. In this…
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In his work, ‘A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism’, James Maxwell wrote: Faraday, in his mind’s eye, saw lines of force traversing all of space, where the mathematicians saw centers of force attracting at a distance. Faraday saw a medium…
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What is gravity? Gravity’s explanation is the holy grail of physics. Einstein spent the latter part of his career trying to tie gravity and electromagnetism together. String theorists believe gravity comes from outside our own universe and is weakened significantly,…
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The Unknown Basic Particle: The Invisible Butterfly When we see a question like this, it would appear that the entire field of physics is far too broad for one to respond to this question, in any way that could be…
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There has been a battle of models on the subject of light since the 1600s. (Actually, for much longer. The ancient Romans believed the ‘eyes’ shot out beams of light.) The currently popular photon model has been in use for…
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For the human concept of time to not exist, change would not be allowed to happen. Our symbolic representations of the passage of time are integral to our dealings and interactions with an ever changing natural world. Objects are in…
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Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang – Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil TurokDoubleday, 2007Book Review There are some theories that are generally accepted, such as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Then there are those that people grapple with, such as the…
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