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…
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…
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…
Newton introduced several concepts into physics in order to label the various parts of his equations. He did so without giving any specifics as to their fundamental nature. Labels such as force, inertia and energy were all defined in terms…
Conventional physics has gravity as a constant force that depends on mass alone.
There is a constant G associated with the equation expressing the relationship
Contrary to popular belief, modern science is full of contradictions and unsolved puzzles, and it does not take more than mild curiosity to uncover these problems. Snell's law Reading about Snell's Law, we only need to take a quick look…
The stability of our solar system is one of the oldest problems in theoretical physics, dating back to Isaac Newton. Newton used his laws of force and motion to determine the motion of a single planet around the Sun. However,…
The Higgs Boson is an essential part of the standard model of elementary particles. It is needed to explain mass and the extremely short range of the weak force.
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…
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…
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