The story below is reproduced from MintPress News. Author’s note: Until now, the story reported here has been unknown to me and perhaps many others. As a scientist (my degree is in Astronomy and Astrophysics), this story strikes very close to home. Science has always been universally dedicated to discovering the truth, no matter what … More The US is Waging a Quiet Scientific War Against Iran
Up until the turn of the 20th century, the natural universe was governed by Newton’s Laws; the study of Physics was known as “Natural Philosophy” and the compendium of the laws of nature and the mathematics governing them and the universe as we understood it was published in Newton’s famous 1687 work “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia … More Einstein’s Triumph – This Day 100 Years Ago!
In an unprecedented observation of a class of objects that have been the center of much attention since they were first postulated by Karl Schwarzchild in 1916 using Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, a world-wide collaboration of astronomers will release tomorrow, the first ever images of 2 super-massive black holes, Sagittarius-A at the center of … More Peering into ‘The Heart of Darkness’
Ever since it was discovered that the rotational dynamics of spiral galaxies were inconsistent with the observed mass of those galaxies, it has been postulated that missing mass or dark matter was responsible. With fellow staff-member Kent Ford, astronomer Vera Rubin announced at a 1975 meeting of the American Astronomical Society the discovery that most stars in spiral galaxies orbit at roughly … More Dark Matter and Dark Energy Explained? Well, not really
Optical counterpart to Gravity Wave observation of 20170817 observed … More A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Two Neutron Stars Merged and The Rest is History – Update to ESO Announcement
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… This now famous opening scroll of Star Wars is a fitting and appropriate way to begin this story as it describes -perfectly- the environment, origin and progenitor of these waves. Yesterday, 3 October, in what the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy described simply as “a discovery … More 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Gravity Wave Detection
What does it mean, Albert Einstein asked in 1905, to say that a train arrives someplace — in Paris, say — at 7 o’clock? It should be noted that today, 30 June, 2017, is the 112th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies“, his Special Theory of Relativity, and thus it … More The Enigma of Time
Memoirs of my College Days during a course taken under Dr. Max Dresden Being born in 1955, the year Albert Einstein died, I could never have met him. But as time, being born when I was, serendipity and choice of pursuits would have it, I would someday get to meet and deeply benefit from someone … More The Closest I Came to Meeting Albert Einstein
When I was a young child, long before I received my first telescope as a Christmas gift from my parents, I often looked up at the moon and thought to myself, this is what the moon will look like in a hundred years from now, a thousand years from now, long after I’m gone. While … More Some Thoughts About Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Audio rendition of Two Black Holes Merging Since Time immemorial, we have looked up at the night sky with our eyes, and perceived the universe and the world around us using Electromagnetic Radiation. That may be changing now with the news that a second source of Gravity Waves has been detected and confirmed by the … More Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation
Astronomy Topic Of The Day 