Candy Corn in SPACE!!!!

When Astronauts are working on the International space station, they are allowed to bring up ‘crew preference’ items. NASA Astronaut Don Pettit used his available space to bring up supplies for cool microgravity science experiments! And - lucky for us – he filmed them all! Below is one of his vidoes that was recently featured on [...]

Higher Dimensions Make My Head Hurt…

So I hear a lot about the ‘higher dimensions’ – especially in regards to string theory and/or why Gravity is so weak (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times weaker than the Weak nuclear force). I have a handle on the first three (l*w*h) as well as the fourth (time). The fifth is pretty clear, as it involves splits off the normal [...]

LHC Switched On!

So this week the Large Hadron Collider was switched on for the first time, heralding in the second golden age of physics. The LHC is expected to clear up mysteries surrounding the Higgs field, dark matter, and anti-matter, as well as re-define the Standard Model definitions of known particle’s charges and masses. Oh, and some [...]