Lord Kelvin, Perry, and the Age of the Earth
The reason Lord Kelvin got the age of the earth wrong was not because he did not know about Radioactivity – that story is a modern myth
Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The reason Lord Kelvin got the age of the earth wrong was not because he did not know about Radioactivity – that story is a modern myth
Have we really finally achieved room-temperature superconductivity? Yes we have, but there is a bit of a catch to how it was achieved.
This year’s Nobel Physics prize is about the darkest secrets of the universe. half to Penrose, and half jointly to Genzel and Ghez.
Not too long ago the tabloids promoted a claim that NASA had evidence of a reverse-time parallel universe. What is the real story there?
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 – 3 win ..“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”
This is about the 2nd of 4 prize announcements this week. Physics is perhaps the most popular of the Nobels. Many past physics winners are well-known names … Pierre and Marie Curie, Marconi, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Hertz, Schrödinger, Fermi, Pauli, Bothe, Feynman and many more. Marie Curie won because Pierre Curie refused to accept unless full credit was also shared with Marie. She later went on to … Read more