Physics
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Special Relativity From First Principles
[/caption] Einstein's explanation of special relativity, delivered in his 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies focuses on demolishing…
Looking at Early Black Holes with a ‘Time Machine’
[/caption] What fed early black holes enabling their very rapid growth? A new discovery made by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…
Particle Physicists Put the Squeeze on the Higgs Boson; Look for Conclusive Results in 2012
[/caption] With “freshly squeezed” plots from the latest data garnered by two particle physics experiments, teams of scientists from the…
Mapping The Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields – The Faraday Sky
[/caption] Kudos to the scientists at the Max Planck Institut and an international team of radio astronomers for an incredibly…
Are Pulsars Giant Permanent Magnets?
[/caption] Some of the most bizarre phenomena in the universe are neutron stars. Very few things in our universe can…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Mass Is Energy
[/caption] Some say that the reason you can't travel faster than light is that your mass will increase as your…
Neutrinos Still Breaking Speed Limits
[/caption] New test results are in from OPERA and it seems those darn neutrinos, they just can't keep their speed…
Unifying The Quantum Principle – Flowing Along In Four Dimensions
[/caption] In 1988, John Cardy asked if there was a c-theorem in four dimensions. At the time, he reasonably expected…
Was a Fifth Giant Planet Expelled from Our Solar System?
[/caption] Earth's place in the "Goldilocks" zone of our solar system may be the result of the expulsion of a…
Honoring Copernicus – Three New Elements Added To The Periodic Table
[/caption] Today, November 4, 2011, the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is meeting…