Physical Science

Evangelical Christian have some very definite biblical beliefs about the origin of the Universe.  Most everyone is pretty sure about that.  However,most serious Christians do not believe that the Universe is something created out of the chaos of an unbelievably…
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Critics of the space program have questioned its cost as far back as NASA’s early Mercury missions that opened space exploration to Mankind. The criticism heightened during the amazing Apollo missions that saw Americans accomplish the age-old dream of humans…
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The Josephson Effect and Josephson Junction The British physicist Brian David Josephson postulated the existence of a current which could traverse two superconductors separated by an insulator of miniscule dimensions in 1962. His prediction has allowed the development of quantum…
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While twenty first century Quantum mechanics is highly abstract and counter-intuitive it’s not that difficult to glean a fundamental understanding of this branch of modern physics by following its history. If we alter our usual ways of thinking that is…
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Although most people have some notion of what a black hole is, you can’t decide on how to characterize one without a precise definition.  Such a precise definition is known in general relativity, but the details are too complex for…
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After 35 years, Voyager I has truly gone “where no man has gone before” or at least no man made object. When the spacecraft was launched in 1977, scientist hoped to receive information about Jupiter and Saturn. No one had…
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Even though we aren’t physically aware of it, the Earth is in a constant state of rotation and revolution. Our only indications are the very obvious differences in day and night, and the changing of the seasons caused by this…
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In the later part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century the structure of the atom was not completely understood.  After the discovery of the negatively charged particle that is called the electron and the discovery of the positively charged…
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Truth Trumps Everything: Of course there could be a basic particle, in fact, there are at least two. The electron is a basic particle that is classified by modern (quantum) physics in a class known as leptons. A basic particle…
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Iodine deficiency is a problem throughout most of the world and Iodine is perhaps the most misunderstood and feared nutrient of all of the nutrients because of the potential for iodine poisoning. Acute iodine poisoning is actually very rare and…
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