The famous “Schrödinger’s cat” is more than a joke about the unknown. It’s a hypothetical way of understanding an idea in quantum mechanics known as superposition. This week on Wondrium, philosophy meets physics. […]
To test LIGO, fake signals were injected by some team members. Detectors kept receiving fake injections until the real thing was finally discovered. […]
Efforts and collaborations to observe gravitational waves lasted until 2015, when the first data were finally collected in September of that year. […]
Russell Hulse, Joseph Taylor, Rai Weiss, and Joseph Weber were the physicists who made efforts to explain and detect density waves in the fabric of spacetime. […]
In order to work accurately, the GPS system has to account for the changes in the curvature of spacetime because of gravity and its effects. And this application comes from Einstein’s theory of general relativity. […]
In order to test and prove Einstein’s
general relativity equation, Arthur Eddington set up portable observation under the path of a total solar eclipse. The results proved Einstein correct. […]
Connecting together gravity, space, and time is considered one of Einstein’s greatest discoveries. It was a fundamental tool used by the astronomers, helping them understand the way our universe works. […]
Einstein did not find a unified answer in Newtonian mechanics or laws of electromagnetism. To resolve this mathematically, he came up with his famous equation, E equals mc squared. […]
Toeing the line between metal and nonmetal gives metalloids the remarkable ability to take on the characteristics of metals or nonmetals. They represent a distinctive boundary area between the electron-hungry nonmetals and the electron-rich metals. […]
The metalloids are used in various things. While boron is used as rocket fuel, as nutrient for plants, and in strong glass products, germanium was used to develop the first transistor. […]
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