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 energy…
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 can only be one reality. There can only be one explanation to the physical world as we know it. Even if we believe in multiple realities, there has to be a single explanation to…
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. It's not…
Mistake of the Century
Getting rid of the aether was probably the biggest mistake in modern science. Because in doing this all sorts of trouble emerged. Mysterious weirdness The electric force, the magnetic force and gravity were suddenly mysterious actions at a distance. A…