Margaret Burbidge’s enthusiasm for astronomy led her to applying for a postdoctoral research position at Mount Wilson. However, she was turned down as women were barred from staying on the mountain and working as lead observers. […]
It seems amazing that using data from observations of the present, we can come to a conclusion of how the universe’s state was in the past, about 14 billion years ago. […]
How have the theories of Einstein and other key physicists influenced modern technology? Test yourself in our fun quiz. […]
To discover more particles, it’s necessary to build particle accelerators with high power and energy. The more energy the machines have, the more massive the number of particles produced. […]
An 89-year-old retiree has fulfilled his dream of becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner of Rhode Island earned his Ph.D. in physics after defending his dissertation at Brown University in Providence. Physics governs nearly everything we do. […]
Even though scientists base their beliefs on facts, they disagree on how they interpret their theories and this separates them into realists and non-realists. […]
In classical economics, the idea was that we ought to be able to model the flow of money in the marketplace on our vision of energy flowing in a physical system. […]
For centuries, Newtonian physics was the dominant worldview. However, Einstein shook up the scientific community with his groundbreaking papers on light quanta; atoms; and, eventually, his special theory of relativity. […]
How do science and philosophy work together? In the new scientific paradigm of modernity, where do concepts come from? Examine how evidence and ideas have come together in modern medicine, and how metaphysics and medicine intersect. […]
Before the Enlightenment, the metaphysical view of the human body was that of a machine, and all problems with the machine could only be caused by parts of the machine malfunctioning. Removing or fixing those parts was the job of surgeons, and the idea that tiny animals inside us could make us sick—that seemed silly. But a new scientific paradigm born of the Enlightenment changed humanity’s view of the body. […]
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