Modern Physics is an origin story of extremes. Extreme speed. Extreme smallness. It was in these corners of reality that old notions found their limits and new ideas could rise to solve mysteries.
A hot cup of coffee and a cold cup of ice water, observed over hours, teach us about some of the things heat energy does, and in response to that, what temperature does. But what IS temperature? Figuring that out leads us down one of the many roads to the quantum universe.
When I was a senior at Yale, I decided to see how much I had really learned in junior year quantum mechanics […]
100 years ago, Albert Einstein published what is considered the foundational work of his theory of “General Relativity,” a scientific theory of […]
I awoke to the buzzing of my wristwatch. It was 4:30am. The telescope and all its accessories were already in the car. […]
I finally had a chance to watch “The Next Big Bang” tonight. I actually enjoyed it a lot. Apart from the beautiful […]
