How does science especially physics help us to understand what we cannot see, or touch. There are some who believe the best way to advance it is to observe the environment and then extrapolate those observations to the unobservable. Isaac Newton used this approach to derive the law of gravity by making the assumption that … Read more
Most physicists would agree that one of the primary goals of their discipline is to explain why the laws of nature are what they are. However there is very little consensus on how to achieve it. For example, there are some who believe the best way is to observe the environment and then extrapolate those … Read more
The Big Bang theory of cosmic evolution postulates the universe had its beginnings as a hot infinitely dense expanding environment. Using this assumption scientists have been able to successful explain and predict many of the observed properties of our universe including the relative abundance of the elements and the formation of galactic clusters. However, they … Read more