Polarization Through Reflection
When light hits a highly reflecting surface, like a mirror, no energy is lost. The bounce of the photons off the atoms that make up the mirror is perfectly elastic.
Proton, Electron and Neutrino
Outside an atomic nucleus, a neutron decays into a proton, an electron and an anti-neutrino within 15 minutes. From this, we can conclude that a neutron is a proton with an electron stuck to it. The function of the neutrino…
Dimensions
In the physics presented in this book, empty space is merely a void with no properties.
The 3 dimensions we normally ascribe to space must therefore be seen as fundamental
Reflections
In one of his books, the author Henry Berg makes the observation that there is something profoundly strange about mirrors.
How is it that a surface made up of atoms can perfectly
Coulomb’s Probability
The word “and” is normally associated with addition. If Jack has three apples and Jill has four apples, Jack and Jill have seven apples all together. If Jack pulls a pale up a hill
Energy on Mercury
Mercury makes its rounds around the Sun a little faster than Newton predicted. This anomaly has been known since Newton's time. But it wasn't before Einstein came along with his curved space-time that conventional science settled the matter for themselves…
Energy Puzzles
Every time we move things from one place to another, we do work by changing the energy of whatever we're pushing around. When we speed things up, we add energy to them. When we slow things down, we subtract. Both…
Light, Gravity and Energy
Gravity is known to affect the energy of photons. But it isn't immediately clear how this happens. Especially if we don't have a clear idea of what energy is. Let us therefore start with some basics regarding the nature of…
The One Theory Fallacy
Most people will agree that there's only one reality. We may have different views of it. We may disagree on the facts. But there can only be one theory that's 100% correct. Reality is coherent. So, there can be but…
Mass is an Abstraction
There is a lot of confusion around the concept of mass in physics. The most common mistake is to confuse matter for mass as if the two things are the same. However, mass is a property of matter in interaction…