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The New World

Speak of the new world and most people will no doubt have an image of America, or maybe North and South America and how over a period of several centuries it was civilized and tamed. ...

It was exciting to see on the news this evening that scientists went to a remote part of Papua New Guinea never explored before by humans. The animals did not know humans so they could walk up to them ...

The other thing I am wondering is if we are given the opportunity to view say two hydrogen atoms as we might view our own solar system, would the hydrogen atoms be identical? Wonder if they are not id ...

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I find it very interesting that the electron to the proton is on the same order as Plank's length is to an electron. An electron orbit covers more area proportionally than a solar system. ...

Maybe the difficulty with fusion reactions in the laboratory is that the assumptions of atoms are far too simple. From my youth I have read textbooks that have inferred that atoms are almost micro-sol ...

The Huygens probe, that was launched from the Cassini mother-ship that is in orbit around Saturn, that landed on the moon Titan last year was in the shape of a flying saucer with attached parachutes t ...

Perhaps the way to travel at tremendous speeds is not to speed up initially but to examine slowing down. At the outset it might sound absurd but we all know that we move upon the Earth in an arc, the ...

How do we even know if light is what we perceive it to be? Think about an infinite road that extends in both directions from the observer. There are stop lights that you can observe along the way situ ...

Einstein toyed with the idea of ether (he may have used a different term for it), a substance that permeates all of space, and then he rejected it. Perhaps dark energy and dark matter are the ether. I ...

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