Are you a student of Physics 30? Are you as frenzied by quantum mechanics as I am? Well, fear not, your savior is here with a quick run through on many of the concepts covered in Quantum Physics. I therefore welcome you to… Quantum Physics Part 1: The Beginning As you may know, light was quantized, ie, restricted…
A few months ago, I was asked the single most difficult question in my entire life: What was the greatest innovation of the 20th century that contributed to modern society? My mind dwelled upon the obvious, cellphones, the Internet, airplanes, rockets, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, cornflakes, teddy bears, and of course, the resource that makes…
1. “Do or do not, there is no try” -Yoda In my opinion, this is undoubtedly one of the best quotes to date (of course, by a non-fiction character). We experience many different things during our lifetime, both good and bad. For some odd reason, whenever something doesn’t go our way, or we perhaps…
It would appear that nowadays, modern science has taken on a much more greater significance in the minds of the public, mainly due to the recent surge in media exposures of the bizarre discoveries that physcists have made over the past century. Unfortunately, media sources vary greatly in their abilities to explain underlying scientific discoveries and far too often…
Often hailed as one of the greatest scientists of all time for his revolutionary ideas in physics, Albert Einstein has become a household name. Along with popularity and fame, Einstein and his ideas have also been submitted to various degrees of challenges from scientists and the general public alike. Most of these challenges arise from…
We’ve all been there: you do a math test, you’re feeling really confident, and then you get the test back, and you’ve got one question wrong! After you look to see what happened, you say “Oh, I see what I did wrong!” Somewhere, you’ve made a (as my dad labels it) “careless mistake” in either…
Lately, Einstein’s theory of relativity has been stripped of its ingenius. And while I was looking into this topic, I came across Einstein’s riddle. I had first been given this question a few years back and although it’s a bit of a struggle at the beginning, it made sense in the end. So try it…
Now most of us know that time travel is mainly science fiction, and will probably remain that way for the foreseeable future, right? Well the answer is: Not Really.
As the Christmas holidays grow closer, I find myself daydreaming about presents and plans and decorations, but sadly, the reality is I won’t be able to really get into the Christmas spirit until school is out. My school work to-do list is impossibly long, sending me into near hysterics every time I think about it.…