Physics
LHC Sets Record for Particle Collisions, Marks “New Territory” in Physics
Physicists at the CERN research center collided sub-atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider on Tuesday at the highest speeds…
Watch History Live from the Large Hadron Collider
[/caption] CERN announced that on March 30 they will attempt to circulate beams in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5…
Formula For Velocity
The formula for velocity is one of the first that you learn in physics. It is also one of the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup
The most powerful operational heavy-ion collider in the world, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently recorded the highest ever…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity, Schmavity
The axiom that what goes up, must come down doesn’t apply to most places in the universe, which are largely empty…
Eccentricity
When it comes to space, the word eccentricity nearly always refers to orbital eccentricity, or the eccentricity of the orbit…
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets?
[/caption] Why do some of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei create back-to-back jets that can vaporize entire…
Nuclear Fusion Power Closer to Reality Say Two Separate Teams
[/caption] For years, scientists have been trying to replicate the type of nuclear fusion that occurs naturally in stars in…
Niels Bohr
[/caption]Niels Bohr was a Nobel Prize winner. He was born Niels Henrik David Bohr on October 7, 1855, in Copenhagen.…
Atomic Mass Unit
[/caption] Believe it or not, there are actually several atomic mass units … however, the one that's standard – throughout…