
Getting Data about the Solar System: Telescopes and Spacecrafts
New types of telescopes and spacecraft will help us gather better and more detailed knowledge of the solar system. […]
New types of telescopes and spacecraft will help us gather better and more detailed knowledge of the solar system. […]
When we have to send a rocket into space, we need to consider the payload, the rocket itself, and the fuel. Above all, a rocket must achieve escape velocity, the acceleration, to escape the Earth’s gravity. […]
Humans have taken a few centuries to refine ideas of what moves the universe, but a theory of everything is still some time away. […]
Over the centuries, our ideas of fundamental forces have changed, as a multiplicity of forces have been reduced to even fewer fundamental forces. […]
To get a theory of everything, we need one fundamental building block and one fundamental force; but we have many more than those right now. […]
The Jumping Jupiter idea and the Grand Tack theory are different variations of the Nice model that try to explain the solar system’s current appearance. […]
The Nice model explains a lot about the solar system. It tells us about how the planets migrated, how the icy planets were formed, and accounts for the Kuiper Belt’s hot and cold populations. […]
Four billion years ago, the inner solar system experienced an unexpected event, a kind of bombardment took place. The first hints of this event were revealed in the Apollo missions. […]
Quantum entanglement happens when the rules of subatomic particles in the quantum realm apply to things that happen outside the atom, in a larger group than only one atom. But what does that mean? […]
Quantum mechanics and Eastern philosophy are described as essentially bound to each other, but that is terribly wrong. Quantum mechanics does not support any religion or philosophy. Then why is the misconception so common that even books have been written on it? […]
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