August 30, marked the 150th birthday of Ernst Rutherford, the founder of nuclear physics. Ernst Rutherford was born in New Zealand on August 30, 1871, the son of farmer James Rutherford and Martha Thompson, and died in Cambridge on October 19, 1937. Wife: Mary Newton. Daughter: Eileen. Eileen’s husband is the famous physicist RH Fowler….
An explosion from a new and unnamed sunspot created the X-Class flame, the first of the 25 solar cycles. An X-ray explosion travels to Earth at the speed of light and collides with the upper part of our atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout in the Atlantic Ocean and coastal areas. The blackout map above…
Fragments of the comet Schumacher Levy 9 (scientific name D / 1993 F2) collided with Jupiter on July 17, 1992. In a span of six days, 21 such fragments fell on Jupiter. The collision between two solar system objects was the first direct observation of the Schumacher Levy 9 collision. Schumacher discovered Levy 9 on…
July 23 is the birthday of the famous astronomer Vera Rubin, who helped us realize that the universe that is possible is only a small part of the real universe. You may have heard of Dark Matter; Especially since most of the universe is used by stakeholders to distort science as something we cannot understand….
Everything in the universe is based on certain laws. One such law regarding black holes was discovered in 1971 by the British physicist Stephen Hawking. One prediction according to this theory is that the area of the event horizon of black holes will never decrease. Furthermore, the event horizon area of another black hole formed…
We’re talking about an experiment with a cat by a scientist named Erwin Schrdinger. Geiger places a cat in a steel box with a counter, a container of poison, a hammer, and a radioactive object. The cat ends up on the spot. Radioactive tuberculosis is a random process and there is no way to predict…
Cesium 137 is produced in nuclear explosions and nuclear reactors. This is a big problem with low half-life isotopes. But it has many practical uses. It is used in radiation therapy. It is dangerous that most compounds of cesium are soluble in water. So it will reach many places very quickly through the water. It…
