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Robert Boyle - Climate Science Pioneer Apart from his experiments with the compression of gases, Robert Boyle deserves to be remembered for his proposals about 'unmingled bodies' (atoms), his promotion of the experimental method, his debunking of p ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 28 2016 - 11:40pm - 0 attachments

... and/or compare that with that what Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and Newton have discovered.  And, one should get ... all that is. But AFTER acquainting with Copernicus-Kepler-Galileo-Descartes-Newton discoveries. Because then it would be enough to just ...

Zoran Dimić - Nov 20 2016 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

As Johannes Koelman put it, in his Falsifiability And The Integrity Of Physics article:  Science is what scientist do. And the scientific method is the method scientists follow. He goes on to say: The scientific method is not about testab ...

David Halliday - Jan 17 2015 - 8:46pm - 0 attachments

This government petition to call for a second EU referendum in the UK has suddenly become very popular. The number of signatures has now reached over 12% of the total votes cast in the referendum, over 25% of the Remain votes, and over 23% of the Le ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jul 12 2016 - 2:57pm - 0 attachments

... including serving as the project scientist for the Galileo mission and the planned Europa Orbiter mission, the term "robotic ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 21 2016 - 5:28am - 0 attachments

Galileo is regarded as an important figure today, because he was put under ... by other scientists. Both Kepler and mathematics knew Galileo was wrong about the moon, for example, but his flavor of science ... that Luna had nothing to do with them. Sailors knew Galileo's data was wrong and now it turns out even coastal birds did. ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2016 - 7:59am - 0 attachments

... for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2016 - 11:06am - 0 attachments

Physicists have a natural reluctance against deduced theories. Usually they require experimental verification of any physical statement. On the other hand not all physical concepts are observable. The deeper one dives into the foundation of physics the mo ...

Hans van Leunen - Jul 15 2013 - 4:32am - 0 attachments

... in the 600s of Giambattista Sagredo, who hosted many times Galileo Galilei there. As for the AMVA4NewPhysics network, it is a "Innovative ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 6 2016 - 11:11am - 0 attachments

Two weeks have passed since the CERN Jamboree of December 15th, which will be always remembered for the spurious 750 GeV signal observed by ATLAS and CMS in their mass spectra of photon pairs. It is unfortunate, as dozens of very important new measurement ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 8 2016 - 10:41pm - 0 attachments