Exploring From Quarks To Quasars
Monte Carlo Method The Monte Carlo method is a class of computational algorithms mainly used for optimization, numerical integration, and/or probability distribution. It originated in the context of the Second World War and the Manhattan …
Using Randomness to Determine a Solution: The Magic of the Famous Monte Carlo Algorithm. Read More »
For his field equations to describe a static universe, the state in which it was believed to be due to the observation of the extremely slow velocities of stars, Einstein had to add a term …
Einstein’s Greatest Blunder In Science That Turns Out To Be Correct! Read More »
In 2011, in the context of the OPERA experiment, after collecting observational evidence for the speed of tau neutrinos, scientists came to conclude that there indeed could be found a “faster-than-light” neutrino. A neutrino is …
A Quantum Experiment That Once Reported Particles Travelling Faster Than Light. Read More »
In a recent article published in October 2020 in Scientific American, Anil Ananthaswamy reported on the findings of David Kipping, an American astronomer from Columbia University. His study suggests that it is not a wild …
New Research Has Shown There’s A 50-50 Chance That We Live In A Simulation. Read More »
First spoken by physicist Brandon Carter in 1973, stating that the universe as we observe and explain it (laws, constants, structure…) is founded on the premise that we, as observers and life form, are able …
Is The Universe Specially Made For Us? The Anthropic Principle Might Have The Answer. Read More »
On October 5, 138 years ago, in 1882, was born Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist from Massachusetts who became known for his works in this field of rocketry, and eventually acknowledged as the father …
Remembering The Dreamer Whose Designs And Experiments Took Humanity To Space. Read More »
Newton’s law of universal gravitation, first having appeared in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in July 1687, states that every particle in the universe attracts another with a force proportional to the product of their …
The Cavendish Experiment And The Gravitational Constant. Read More »
Harnessing the spirit of the War during the Second World War, in order to push technological innovation to its limits, a project to build the first atom bomb was initiated in 1942 and extended through …
On Monday, a team of scientists reported the detection of phosphine gas (an atom of phosphorus on top of three atoms of hydrogen) high up in Venus’ atmosphere, a chemical signature whose source might be …
Scientists Have Detected Potential Signs Of Alien Life On Inhospitable Venus. Read More »
Einstein’s Miracle Year In 1905, at only 26 years old and working as a civil servant in a patent office in Bern, Albert Einstein would publish 5 groundbreaking papers in the scientific journal, Annalen der …
How The Young Albert Einstein Changed The Course Of Modern Science In Just One Year? Read More »
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