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A new museum in Petersburg, Kentucky greets visitors with a 20ft tall tumbling waterfall and at its base, mannequins of frolicking children play amongst dinosaurs. The Creation Museum, which cost $25 million to build, is home to many unusual si ...

Article - Sarda Sahney - Jun 11 2007 - 11:02am - 0 attachments

If you've ever been a grad student, post-doc, or a research assistant, surely there have been days when you thought, "This is the worst research project on the planet. Is this really science? Does anyone else see how crazy this is? Am I the only one in th ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Jan 23 2011 - 6:57pm - 0 attachments

CONTENTS PART A: Introduction: does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content? PART B: The Toolkit: mathematical and physical assumptions  PART C: The Thought Experiment and the Word Problem PART D: The Derivation. So ...

Article - Barry Barrett - May 15 2012 - 10:56am - 0 attachments

Some new research out of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at Oregon State University could have practical, humanitarian uses, like prosthetic limbs for humans or helping people in wheelchairs gain 'walking' mobility.  It could also be used for awesome ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 18 2012 - 2:14pm - 0 attachments

People can already count since several millennia. Arithmetic is improved over time. Usually we count by using integers. If we want to get more accurate results, then we better use rational numbers. Sometimes we also use numbers that are not expressible ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Apr 1 2012 - 8:12am - 0 attachments

On the vast CERN landscape outside Geneva, there’s only one figure in science tilting at the LHC windmill, Dr Otto E Rössler(Roessler). An aged veteran with some 300 research papers under his belt, sometimes called the father of Chaos theory, he looks ...

Blog Post - Alan Gillis - Apr 10 2012 - 7:31pm - 2 attachments

INTERPLANETARY SPACE The burden of human and future human ‘ TAB ’ life on our planet’s natural resources assure that they will eventually be depleted below our collective needs to consume them. An unbiased observer from outer space might even consi ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Apr 5 2012 - 12:50pm - 0 attachments

... branches ensures that the quantum probability (say photon polarization being 50/50 up or down) is consistent with the physics of the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 15 2012 - 11:56pm - 0 attachments

I, personally, have very little background in physics compared to most other scientists. I am fairly young, so I suppose that is to be expected. I still can't help but be perplexed with what seems to me as over-complicating the system. These are just my t ...

Article - Cher One - Sep 6 2009 - 1:31am - 0 attachments

Start the year off with a new toy model for gravity. It is a toy, so let's just play with it and see what we learn. Feel free in the comments section to vote if I should keep this toy or return it for a refund. At a minimum, the toy must do three thi ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jan 10 2012 - 8:43pm - 0 attachments