Physics

Bernhard Meirose is a researcher at Stockholm University and associate professor (docent) at Lund University. He has a doctoral degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has…

Dark matter is one of the most fascinating concepts in physics and is thought to account for 85% of the universe’s matter. They have been so talked about that they have taken on a semblance of fact…

Quantum gravity has fascinated scientists for over a century. The term refers to any theory that seeks to describe gravity in the regimes in which quantum effects cannot be disregarded. Scientists…

For 100,000 years, I have written a holiday card which featured ideas I played with that year in Physics. Note, I was reporting that in binary, so for 32 years, or since 1989. Without further ado,…

The title of this post is no news for particle physicists - particle detectors are complex instruments and they work by interpreting the result of stochastic phenomena taking place when radiation…

One of the constant things that one encounters in the world of science is idealization. Nevis Laboratories define physics as the study of matter and energy. It's supposed to be a guide to the world…

The neutron, discovered in 1932 by Chadwick, is a fascinating particle whose existence allows for the stability of heavy nuclei and a wealth of atoms of different properties. Without neutrons,…

A theory of everything has been the Holy Grail of some of the greatest physicists of the last century, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking. A theory of everything, a single, all-encompassing…

A couple of weeks ago Derrick Muller of the YouTube Channel Veritasium made a video asserting that the electrical energy in a circuit does not flow through the wires but through the…

Interference is a fascinating effect, and one which can be observed in a wide variety of physical systems - any system that involves the propagation of waves from different sources. We can observe…