The black body radiation is a key concept of the physics of the 19th century. Its importance stems from the fact that it led to the development of the current quantum theory of light. The black body is so important…
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If you ever have seen the science show on t.v about the findings in the deep blue sea, you would of noticed the new underwater creatures that they found. It was a show of new types of fish below the…
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Every elementary school student at some point or another either had a song or mnemonic device to help them remember the “Nine Planets” in order from the sun, outward. MVEMJSUNP (with just the planets), or sometimes SMVEMAJSUNP (showing the positions…
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UFOs in the Canadian Arctic Simon M. is an Inuit elder. He has lived of the land in his youth, with his team of dogs. He has been a hunter all his life. He is a jovial joker and a…
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Marie Curie, nee Sklodowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland on the 7th November 1867 to parents who were both educators. When Marie was growing up, Poland was in the grips of Russians and German occupation. This in practical terms meant that the…
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Terra, it’s Latin name, may be the best we can manage in the Latin alphabet. It’s the root of the word “terrestrial” (our ecology) and “terran” (ourselves, among other species). It isn’t quite as religiously suggestive as “Gaia” and it…
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Have you ever wished upon a falling star? You have seen a meteor. “Meteor” is the scientific name for the flash of light in the sky. They appear when a meteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere. The air friction causes it to…
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Who Rules The Earth? The Planets or Mankind? The Planets Fighting Back Do we seriously think we could win? This is not even a chicken and egg situation, where mankind could argue that we were on Planet Earth first. The…
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In this article, the concept of the spin is discussed, and in particular the electron spin due to its importance to the understanding of the theory of chemical bond and spectroscopic information of atoms and molecules. Spin is a fundamental…
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Pluto: A planet or not? This diagram (left) shows that Pluto, what we thought to be the furthest planet from our Sun was actually closer to it than Neptune in the year 1989 (Circled) when the two planets’ orbits intertwined….
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