Physics
The Planets, Our Sun
The picture below gives an idea of the size of our sun, but see later when we compare the size of our sun to other stars. The Prologue: I would like to give a h/t [more…]
Physics
Physics
The Planets
A huge hat tip and thank you to EJ of this parish for providing the planetary GIF. Throughout this series, I would like to give a huge H/T to NASA.. I have used other sources as [more…]
Arts
The Thorium Cycle, Part Three
As we’ve seen in the last chapter, there are two significant advantages of a molten salt reactor over the water boiling reactor range we have today: their fuel mix makes them inherently safer than water-cooled [more…]
Arts
The Thorium Cycle, Part Two
A question you may be asking yourselves now is: if there is a commercially viable application of the Thorium cycle, why haven’t I heard of it before? Well, there is a very simple and obvious [more…]
Fiction
The Flat Earth Society
Firstly a hat tip to the Flat Earth Society, their website is: https://www.tfes.org/ also for Wikipedia, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies I thought it about time that we all knew something about The Flat Earth Society, (TFES). [more…]
Arts
The Thorium Cycle, Part One
Rightly or wrongly, I consider myself to be a reasonably educated sort of fellow. But a few years ago, it struck me as rather odd that I had never heard of the Thorium cycle or [more…]
Physics
How does a LASER work?
In my youth, I was an avid reader of Electronics Today International. Not only did it cover the more hefty electronic DIY projects but it also liked to look forward in terms of technology and [more…]
Engineering
Fog and FIDO
Fog is a bit of a bugger. It reduces visibility, is patchy and is somewhat unpredictable but what is fog? Fog is condensed water droplets that appear close to the surface of the earth. It [more…]
Physics
Energy levels of atoms
(or why shoving a red hot poker where the sun doesn’t shine is an experiment in quantum physics) In my previous artlicle, we had a brief look at spectroscopy and how atoms of different elements [more…]
Physics
An abridged history of the atomic model
Towards the end of the 19th century, scientists were considering the structure of the atom. The atom was deemed to be a tiny piece of matter which helped answer questions regarding spectroscopy. Spectroscopy being the [more…]
Physics
The Sun – page 2 unfortunately….
Previously, we looked at our Sun and how it works however only a small part was covered. We saw that quantum tunneling allowed protons to fuse in conditions that classical physics – that relying only [more…]
Physics