Astronomy
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. […]
Science
Astronomy
Achieving Escape Velocity: Launching Rockets into Space
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. […]
History of Science
Waiting for Unity: When Will We Get a Theory of Everything?
Humans have taken a few centuries to refine ideas of what moves the universe, but a theory of everything is still some time away. […]
History of Science
Fundamental Forces: A History of Unifying Forces
Over the centuries, our ideas of fundamental forces have changed, as a multiplicity of forces have been reduced to even fewer fundamental forces. […]
History of Science
A Fundamental Building Block and Force
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. […]
Astronomy
Two Models of Planet Migration: Jumping Jupiter and Grand Tack
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. […]
Astronomy
The Original Nice Model of Planet Migration: The Gas and Ice Giants
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. […]
Astronomy
The Late Heavy Bombardment: Did the Planets Get Bombed From Space?
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. […]
Physics
Quantum Entanglement, Photons, and Copenhagen Interpretation
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? […]
Physics
Are Quantum Mechanics and Eastern Philosophy Related?
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? […]