Gravitational waves have long been a puzzle for scientists, and while Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity predicted their existence, the renowned physicist was on record as saying he wasn’t sure they could exist. This year, […]
While we are increasingly being asked to refine our view of the world and the universe in which we live, one thing that we hold as constant is time. People often say things like “you […]
In science fiction movies, we see crews being frozen in cryogenic chambers so that they can make long trips across the universe. The crew being placed in an induced state of hibernation at the start […]
So much of what is know about space science is hard to fully understand, even for the scientists who study the field, but fortunately there are many more understandable, and cooler facts about space that […]
Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher who was born around 490Bc and was famous for posing paradoxes which challenged mathematicians’ view of the real world for many centuries. One of Zeno’s Paradox goes something […]
In the 19th century James Clerk Maxwell formulated the field theory of electromagnetism, and in the early 20th century, Albert Einstein developed a field theory of gravitation. The last three decades of Einstein‘s life was […]
1: Copernicus First Suggested Earth Revolves Around Sun Polish astronomer Copernicus (1473-1543) was not the first person to suggest the Earth revolves around a stationary Sun, but he was the first to revive and elaborate […]
Of all the strange objects that exist in the Universe, black holes are without doubt the strangest. In 1971, Cygnus X-1, the first physical black hole ever discovered, may have moved black holes away from […]
When starting out in stargazing, you will notice that instead of just seeing white colored stars like you might have always assumed was the case, a closer examination will reveal many other different colored stars […]
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