Physical Sciences

My All-Time Favorite April Fool's Day Gag

My wife and I were in an airport newsstand. I was looking through the magazines to find something to read on the flight when I saw something that didn't make sense. Quite confused, I had to blink a few times to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Mar 25 2015 - 11:45am

Ten Reasons NOT To Live On Mars- Great Place To Explore

collects at the poles. It gets warm at midday, briefly, can go over 0 °C. So is not cold all the time, but ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2024 - 3:40am

Galileo's Day Off

engineering solutions for everything from lasers to atomics, for example. Finally, all else being equal, the ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 7 2009 - 3:09pm

Is This Why We Haven't Found Life On Mars Yet? Value Of Actually Looking

to build at all or too massive. Instruments that would fill an entire lab not that long ago, are now ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 21 2018 - 3:47pm

Supertranslations And Eternal Ghosts: Black Holes No Closer To Being Understood

holes. Black holes can swallow anything that comes too close, squashing all matter into the apparently ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 31 2015 - 9:59am

Emergence: The Remarkable Simplicity Of Complexity

biological systems. It pervades all areas of science and is a manifestation of other complex interacting ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 1 2014 - 9:01am

Space-times-time Invariance as Gravity, Part A: the Proposal

because it is the invariant interval that all inertial observers agree upon. Invariance principles are ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 10 2015 - 9:45pm

ESO 510-G13: We Discovered A Warped Disc Of Massive Stars At The Edge Of Our Galaxy

in all directions. While that is not particularly difficult in directions above and below the stellar ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 5 2019 - 8:00am

Why Mars is NOT a Great Place to Live- Amazing to Explore From Orbit- with RC Rovers, and Nature Inspired Avatars

spend nearly all their time inside the habitats for safety reasons. You would only go out if you had to. ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 4 2015 - 4:59am

Wave Function: Schrödinger's Cat Gets A Reality Check

apparent violation of Einstein’s own theory of relativity. And contrary to Einstein’s wish, in all ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 11 2015 - 6:51pm