Oct. 5, 1882 - Robert Goddard, an American rocket scientist, is born. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is named after him. Oct. 7, 1885 - Niels Bohr, one of the ... Read More

Even without resorting to myths, quantum physics provides physicists (and the average person) with ample reason to feel like we're in a mythical world. Even our most fundamental concepts ... Read More

As Physics Myth Month winds to a close, I'd like to add a couple of my personal favorites to the list of Popular Physics Myths. This list will continue ... Read More

Sept. 30, 1870 - French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin is born. His work on the discontinuous structure of matter (i.e. atomic theory) helped earn him the 1926 Nobel Prize ... Read More

There are many theories about what exactly was going on in the first few moments of the universe's creation, immediately following the Big Bang. One of these theories is ... Read More

Today's addition to the list of Popular Physics Myths is that Albert Einstein failed in mathematics courses. When growing up, I remember being frequently told the proverbial stories about Einstein as ... Read More

Sept. 20, 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the inquisition of the Catholic Church on charges of heresy for teaching that the Earth orbits around the sun. Sept. 23, 1915 ... Read More

There is a report in the journal Nature which has grave implications for our understanding of matter and antimatter. According to the report, a team out of the University ... Read More

The story goes that Sir Isaac Newton discovered his law of gravity while sitting under an apple tree and being struck by a falling apple. While somewhat based on ... Read More

Sept. 16, 1736 - German physicist & engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. The Fahrenheit scale of temperature is named after him. Sept. 15, 1852 - African American physicist Edward Alexander ... Read More

A fascinating column in Nature look at Arthur Eddington's 1919 experiment "proving" Einstein's theory of special relativity. Several people in recent years have questioned Eddington's findings, implying that it ... Read More

After the success of August's Thermodynamics Month, I've decided to make this month the Physics Myth Month, where we will cover several myths related to physics and physicists. Look ... Read More

Sept. 3, 1905 - American experimental physicist Carl David Anderson is born. Anderson would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the positron. Sept. 5, 1906 ... Read More