Physics
Measuring Fundamental Constants with Methanol
[/caption] Key to the astronomical modeling process by which scientists attempt to understand our universe, is a comprehensive knowledge of…
Australian Student Uncovers the Universe’s Missing Mass
[/caption] Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of…
AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe
The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…
Did the Early Universe Have Just One Dimension?
[/caption] From a University of Buffalo press release: Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling…
The Universe in a Chocolate Creme Egg
Can chocolate cream eggs help explain the mysteries of the Universe? As part of the University of Nottingham’s Sixty Symbols…
No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days
[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…
A New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
[/caption] Trying to understand the warping of space and time is something like visualizing a scene from Alice in Wonderland…
Particle Physicists See Something Little That Could be Really Big
[/caption] Physicists from Fermilab have seen a “bump” in their data that could indicate a brand new particle unlike any…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Doubly Special Relativity
[/caption] General relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, gives us a useful basis for mathematically modeling the large scale universe -…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Unreasonable Effectiveness
[/caption] Gravitational waves are apparently devilishly difficult things to model with Einstein field equations, since they are highly dynamic and…