One of the most basic ideas in physics is that the different properties of mass – weight, inertia and gravitation – always stay the same in relation to each other. This is really important because if it wasn’t true, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity would be wrong and we’d have to rewrite our physics textbooks.
The event has been dubbed S200114f. The burst originated from the area of Betelgeuse, a red giant star that is the eleventh-brightest star in the night sky. Astronomers have swung their telescopes to this portion of the sky and are listening across different wavelengths for a whisper of what may have occurred.
In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted that any event that disturbs spacetime will produce ripples that spread throughout the entire Universe. He called these ripples gravitational waves. This week, one hundred years after Einstein’s prediction, scientists revealed they had finally detected gravitational waves. The discovery being called the greatest scientific advance this century. Here’s how they…
For a long time, Geek Slop has been trying to convince his readers that despite mind-boggling implications, Galileo was correct – all objects fall at the same rate regardless of how heavy they are. In other words, mass does not affect gravitational pull. Theoretically, in a vacuum, if you dropped a school bus (with the…
Galileo, pronounced gal uh LAY oh (1564-1642), an Italian astronomer and physicist, has been called the founder of modern experimental science. Galileo made the first effective use of the refracting telescope to discover important new facts about astronomy. He also discovered the law of falling bodies as well as the law of the pendulum. Galileo…
I loved the movie Gravity! The photography was beautiful and the 3D imagery phenomenal to experience. George Clooney was great (while he lasted) and Sandra bullock a pleasant wonder to watch (as always). Still, I couldn’t help but wonder how accurate the portrayal of the space environment really was. As it turns out, the physics…
Zero-G refers to weightlessness and means “zero g-force” not “zero gravity” as some would believe. It’s most commonly envisioned as astronauts floating around in space. You can experience zero gravity in a free falling airplane too and in fact, astronauts use these free falling planes to train in a weightless environment.
A new lighting product, GravityLight, allows an LED to run for 30 seconds from a 3-second pull of a string. The light has been designed for developing countries where sophisticated power grids are non-existent and technologies such as batteries and solar power are cost prohibitive. The kit includes an LED lamp and a sack that…
In this video, Japanese astronaut, Dr. Takao Doi, throws a boomerang inside the International Space Station, in a zero-G environment. Before the experiment, they really were not sure what it would do, thinking it would probably spin up and away from the thrower, As it turns out, it acts pretty much the same as it…
Gravity Probe B is a satellite-based, relativity gyroscope experiment that launched in 2004 for the purpose of measuring the space-time curvature near Earth in order to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The experiment was to check, very precisely, tiny changes in the spin and angle of four gyroscopes contained in a highly sophisticated housing…
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