Saturday, April 20, 2024
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of those engineering marvels that have been in service far longer than originally anticipated. Launched on April 24, 1990, the telescope was originally meant to operate for fifteen years. Now, after thirty years in space, five servicing missions by astronauts, and over a million […]
Transportation is among the most prevalent issues today. If our planet is made of land and buildings like skin and bones, then public transportation is the connective tissue. If it doesn’t work, nothing works. But in the words of Josh Giegel, how can we continue to advance “when we’re built […]
It’s no secret: satellites power our world. Our phones, GPS, TV channels, and other modes of networking and navigation rely almost exclusively on orbiting satellites. But where are these man-made marvels situated? Do they fly slightly above the clouds or as far away as some asteroids? The National Aeronautics and […]
Modern science has centered around one mathematical equation for decades: the “Standard Model.” Using twelve types of matter particles, three forces, and a special binding agent called the Higgs-Boson, the Standard Model does its best—and its best is pretty good—to explain the physical universe. It assumes the ideas of Quantum […]
Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is commonly thought to be impossible. Einstein established this in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. The speed of light, he said, is an unbreakable constant. FTL travel will never exist if his theory is to be accepted—and it is, almost universally. However, gravity is a […]