(#44) Left, from Wikipedia, this photo is an “[I]nternal view of the JET tokamak superimposed with an image of a plasma taken with a visible spectrum video camera.” (1) Stars are hot stuff. Nuclear fusion occurs naturally in stars and happens when like-charged atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nuclei. (2) He’s not [...]
(#43) Scientific research uncovers new facets of our world every day. Scientists have to name these discoveries and some of the ideas they come up with I find to be very amusing (especially physics). Below are thirteen of my favorite funny science terms. Any of these would make excellent geek band names. 1. Nanoputians or [...]
(#42) 1. A black hole is a region of space where the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape its “event horizon.” This ability to trap even light gave the phenomenon its name. I’m guessing the pull of a black hole is stronger than my desire for chocolate. Just a [...]
(#41) 1. The Large Hardron Collider (LHC) is the “world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex,” and its purpose is to test the current standard theory of particle physics. Shiny. 2. The LHC collides beams of protons with the hopes of finding the elusive Higgs Boson. This finding would confirm some suppositions about particle physics, [...]
