Two atoms were walking across a road when one of them said, "I think I lost an electron!" "Really!" the other replied, "Are you sure?" "Yes, I 'm absolutely positive."
Explanation: When atoms have no electrons, they have positive charge, or are absolutely positive.
( HA HA HA).
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Standard Model
The Standard Model is just like the periodic table. But… with particles. And keeping the weird names.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Higgs Boson 's Big Brother?
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, one of the world’s most important particle accelerator, have found signs of a new particle that could change all of our ideas on the Standard Particle Model.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Today's Scientific Joke #4
There is a sign in Munich that reads, "Heisenberg might have slept here."
Explanation: According to Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle, you can not tell any particle's position or velocity down to quantum level.
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Explanation: According to Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle, you can not tell any particle's position or velocity down to quantum level.
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Super Spiral galaxies found
A new type of monsters was spotted in our cosmos: the super spiral galaxies, enormous galaxies that can be as big as fours times the size of the Milky Way or 14 times its brightness.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Incredible Curiosities #4
- My time is not your time
For many years, classical mechanics assumed that time was absolute to everybody, independently of their physical state (moving, standing still,...).However, Einstein came to prove these folks wrong. According to the principle of relativity, light is a constant velocity, c, and will always remain the same (in vacuum). Then, this would not follow the theorem of addition of velocities proposed by our friend Newton. This is how Relativity emerged. Through some calculations I will not cite now, it proved that, the bigger your velocity or the gravity you are experiencing, the slower time passes to you.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Antimatter -- our evil twins?
We all have heard about antimatter. It has been represented in movies and cartoons a few times -- an intergalactic villain who wanted to destroy the universe with antimatter! But is antimatter like the entertainment industries represent it? What are its properties?
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Today's Scientific Joke #3
"A physics professor, who was teaching a graduate course on superstring theory, decided to add an essay question to this year's final exam. The instructions read, "Describe the universe in 400 words or less and give three examples."
Explanation: The superstring theory says that are many universes and dimensions.
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Explanation: The superstring theory says that are many universes and dimensions.
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Life on Mars and cooperation in space
The first space mission that was born with the help of two space agencies, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, travels with the promise of revealing some of the Red Planet’s secrets.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Women in science - we can do it!
On Tuesday, last week, the entire world celebrated the International Women’s Day. Have you ever stopped to think about women in science? If not, here is a list of 5 important females that made the difference in an area dominated by men.
Friday, March 11, 2016
50 Shifts of Red ( and Blue)
When we talk about waves, there are two important concepts you should remember: blueshift and redshift. But before we really get into these topics, we need to understand what the color spectrum is.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Today's Scientific Joke #2
“A photon checks into a hotel.
The bellhop asks, "Can I help you with your luggage.
Explanation : photons are the “particles of light”, this is, the particles that make up visible light.
Credits:
www.jupiterscientific.org
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Incredible Curiosities #2
Welcome to Incredible Curiosities #2, your source for the most amazing facts about the Universe, life and everything else there is.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016
Einstein Was Right!
No other discovery has been so impacting as that made by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Researches were able to detect gravitational waves, the final of Einstein's predictions on his General Theory of Relativity.But what are these waves, really? And why are they so important?
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Today's Scientific Joke
Sometimes, I will post the so called "scientific jokes" on the blog so I can prove that us physicists and astronomers can actually have some humor.
But I can’t promise that you will laugh.
So, here it is:
“A neutron walked into a bar and asked, "How much for a gin and tonic?" The bartender smiled wryly and replied, ‘For you, no charge.’”
Neutrons, different from electrons and protons, that have negative and positive charge, have no charge.
Credits:
jupiterscientific.org
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Cosmic Sabbatical Year
Would you accept being alone, away from family and friends, in an unkown and potentially dangerous place --- for one year? But I am not talking about a desert or a forest. Would you accept being one entire year in the vacuum of space? Well, a brave person did. And no, I am not talking about The Martian.
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