How Carl Sagan immortalized the theory by Hans Bethe on television
Astronomer Carl Sagan popularized the phrase "We are made of star stuff" when he said: Nitrogen in our DNA, calcium in our teeth,...
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Ten Mind-Blowing Discoveries By Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton is one of the few names that will forever be enshrined in physics history and that too with a lot of glamour associated. Contri...
Pioneer of Thermodynamics Was Rejected By The Royal Society
Sometimes an idea is so far ahead of the time that when proposed it is met with suspicion and mockery. This happened with English physicist ...
When Nobel Prize winning physicist was wrong about atoms
Sometimes, even the most brilliant people can make awfully wrong predictions despite having pioneered the concerned field. Sir J.J. Thomson ...
Werner Heisenberg's Pioneering Views On Quantum Mechanics
Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for the creation of quantum mechanics. He was o...
10 Hard-Hitting Differences Between Astronomy and Astrology
1. Every newspaper in the world has a daily column on astrology. Not a single paper carries even a weekly column on astronomy. ( Carl Sagan ...
This Is How Dirac Predicted Antimatter
For those who don't know anything about English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac: he has often been compared to one of the fathers ...
Applications of fundamental forces in real life
All the visible interactions in nature can be explained in terms of just four fundamental forces. Most physicists think that these...
Ten Physics Documentaries You Should Be Watching
Great American astronomer, Carl Sagan, said in the original Cosmos: "Imagination will carry us to the worlds that never were but w...
The Consequences And Applications of E=mc²
Just like electric and magnetic phenomena are two sides of the same coin, in similar way, matter and energy, according to Albert Einst...
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