electromagnetic spectrum
Communicating With a Relativistic Spacecraft Gets Pretty Weird
Someday, in the not-too-distant future, humans may send robotic probes to explore nearby star systems. These robot explorers will likely…
Construction Tips from a Type 2 Engineer: Collaboration with Isaac Arthur
Fraser Cain and Isaac Arthur team up again to bring you another epic collaboration. This time, it’s construction tips from…
What Was Cosmic Inflation? The Quest to Understand the Earliest Universe
The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary…
Quasar Light Confirms Consistency Of Electromagnetism Over 8 Billion Years
The ESO has released spectral data obtained by the Very Large Telescope, which studied a distant qausar to determine how…
What Are Virtual Particles?
As we’ve learned, black holes can evaporate over time thanks to the creation of virtual particles at the edge of…
If You Could See in Radio These Are the Crazy Shapes You’d See in the Sky
Even though it's said that the average human eye can discern from seven to ten million different values and hues of…
Radio Waves
[/caption] Radio waves are electromagnetic waves, or electromagnetic radiation, with wavelengths of about a centimeter or longer (the boundary is…
Light Spectrum
Light spectrum can mean the visible spectrum, the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation which our eyes are sensitive to…