Blog Post Header Image TSAKANIN KWAKWALWA DA ZUCIYA 2

TSAKANIN KWAKWALWA DA ZUCIYA 2

Zuciyar dan adam na gudanar da ayyuka masu dimbin yawa wadanda har yanzu malaman kimiyyar halittar jikin dan adam sun kasa tantance adadinsu. Abin da ake ta yi dai shi ne bincike, har zuwa wannan …

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Blog Post Header Image TSAKANIN KWAKWALWA DA ZUCIYA 1

TSAKANIN KWAKWALWA DA ZUCIYA 1

A wajen malaman kimiyyar halittar dan adam, kamar yadda muka gani, tunanin dan adam na samuwa ne ta hanyar kwakwalwarsa. A takaice ma dai suna ganin kwakwalwar dan adam ne ke sarrafa sauran bangarorin jikinsa …

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Blog Post Header Image GALILEAN RELATIVITY 1

GALILEAN RELATIVITY 1

Special relativity implies that moving clocks run slow. That is itself a strange result, but clocks running backward would be too much to swallow. No such disaster arises, however. In the case of the moths, …

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Blog Post Header Image A HISTORICAL DIVERSION BY STEVEN WEINBERG 1

A HISTORICAL DIVERSION BY STEVEN WEINBERG 1

The writing history is largely a process of diversion, Most historical accounts distract attension from the secret influences behind great events.

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Blog Post Header Image FIRST THREE MINUTES 1

FIRST THREE MINUTES 1

We are now prepared to follow the course of cosmic evolution through its first three minutes. Events move much more swiftly at first than later, so it would not be useful to show pictures spaced …

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Blog Post Header Image THE POSSIBILITY OF A “FINITE” AND YET “UNBOUNDED” UNIVERSE

THE POSSIBILITY OF A “FINITE” AND YET “UNBOUNDED” UNIVERSE

In the first place, we imagine an existence in two-dimensional space. Flat beings with flat implements, and in particular flat rigid measuring-rods, are free to move in a plane. For them nothing exists outside of …

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Blog Post Header Image COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON’S THEORY

COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON’S THEORY

This conception is in itself not very satisfactory. It is still less satisfactory because it leads to the result that the light emitted by the stars and also individual stars of the stellar system are …

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Blog Post Header Image First Solvay Conference on Physics

First Solvay Conference on Physics

The Solvay International Conferences on Physics, held every few years, are noted for their role in stimulating advances in atomic and quantum physics and were originally sponsored by Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), a Belgian industrial chemist …

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Blog Post Header Image A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation 1

A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation 1

Newton agreed with Bentley that providence had designed a universe of  infinite extent in which uniformly distributed stars stand poised in unstable  equilibrium like needles on their points (Harrison, 1987).

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Blog Post Header Image EPILOGUE: THE PROSPECT AHEAD

EPILOGUE: THE PROSPECT AHEAD

During at least the early part of the contracting phase, astronomers (if there are any) will be able to amuse themselves by observing both red shifts and blue shifts. Light from nearby galaxies would have …

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Blog Post Header Image Quantum particles :: When photons spice up the energy levels of quantum particles

Quantum particles :: When photons spice up the energy levels of quantum particles

Quantum particles :: When photons spice up the energy levels of quantum particles

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Blog Post Header Image The Physics of Sound 1

The Physics of Sound 1

Sound lies at the very center of speech communication. A sound wave is both the end product of the speech production mechanism and the primary source of raw material used by the listener to recover …

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
--- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
--- Albert Einstein