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Monthly Archives: December 2010
News: More cracks found on shuttle Discovery’s external tank
If you’re following the demise and final flights of NASA’s space shuttle program then you’ll want to know that Discovery, which was meant to fly at the beginning of November, has suffered yet another setback. More cracks have been discovered … Continue reading
Describing our Universe: Friedmann Equation; Fate of our Universe
This article concentrates on how we can determine the fate of our unimaginably large universe, and everything within it, using an elegant but powerful bit of maths. Yummy. We all love maths, don’t we? While not going into too much … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Astronomy, Cosmology, Space & Earth, Theoretical
Tagged advanced, CMB, cosmic microwave background, cosmological constant, cosmology, curvature, dark matter, distance, expansion, fate, fluid, fluid equation, friedmann, gcse, hubble, scale factor, space, universe
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Why do we have blue skies, red sunsets?
It’s a question that at one point in our lives we have either been asked or asked ourselves. Why is the sky blue? Why are our sunsets red? These two questions are two sides of the same coin. Out of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Environment, Space & Earth
Tagged air, atmosphere, blue, earth, intermediate, light, molecules, planet, rayleigh, red, scattering, sky, sun, sunset
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Carl Talks Physics is Born
Have you ever looked up at the stars and asked yourself why they twinkle? Do you ever wonder why you can break an egg, but not un-break it? Are you free for the next fifteen minutes and have the drive … Continue reading
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