Black-body radiation
Black-body radiation is a concept you will need to grapple with when looking at cosmic background radiation, (should you choose to do so – and I would implore you to, […]
Category Archives: Science
Perspective matters
Anyone who knows anything about the cosmos will know that it is vast – I hope I don’t need to tell my readers this still however the vastness of the […]
The flatness problem
I am doing a reasonable amount of reading in inflationary cosmology at the moment, thanks to a talk I went to with a German Dr of Cosmology last week – […]
A theoretical crisis
My chances to speak with brilliant minds seems to be increasing… I am sure there is a way I can isolate the variables and model this – were my differential […]
Electron configuration demystification
Today I want to talk about electron configuration because I think it is one of the biggest failings of the education system. It is widely accepted in schools that we […]
We’ve got Chemistry
For anyone who regularly follows my blog, or for those I interact with regularly I must apologise – if you follow my twitter you will know I got marooned on […]
The age of the robots
I recently attended a talk by the Institute of Physics talking about advancements in robotics and what the future might realistically look like; i.e. not what a Hollywood director thinks […]
Regarding mass conversion
We spoke briefly last time the equivalence of mass and energy, which is governed by Einstein’s most famous equation; E = mc² In this equation the conversion of mass to […]
Energy.
Energy is possibly the most basic and yet the most complex topic that exists in science, and is an area in science where I find the definitions a little slack, […]
In the news this week
This is another one of my news round ups, because I do think it has been a rather exciting week for it. Like I said last time, these are not […]
Rationalising The Universe 