Every second thousand of cosmic rays mostly hydrogen and helium nuclei strike every square meter of the Earth’s upper atmosphere. We don’t really know where they come from. But we do know that when cosmic rays crash into air molecules in the atmosphere. They create a shower of other fundamental particles pions crayons positrons, electronsContinue reading “Muons:Life example of the theory of relativity”
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Galaxies:The Birth, the manoeuvre
Most things in the universe happened to slowly for us to see them happening stars, like the sun take tens of millions of years to form and hundreds of millions of years to orbit there galaxies and colliding galaxies take billions of years to merge and yet we have a pretty decent understanding of howContinue reading “Galaxies:The Birth, the manoeuvre”
Perspective: A truth game of shifted view frame
When Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter in 1610, he was the first person to see the giant orbs attached to it by Springs. In his actual drawings compared night after night show these bright spots moving back and forth past Jupiter exactly the same as if they were balls hanging off of Springs. IContinue reading “Perspective: A truth game of shifted view frame”
Twin Paradox
Did you know that you could be older than your twin like years older according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity? It’s possible because time can take faster or slower depending on how you’re moving. What yeah, we’ll get back to that. But first we’re going to learn all of special relativity. Don’t worry. ThereContinue reading “Twin Paradox”