experiments
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What is the Scientific Method?
Have you ever read about a scientific discovery, and wondered, “How the heck can we possibly know?” Without a background understanding of the scientific method, that’s a difficult question to answer — because we first need to define what we…
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Einstein: Space-Time Curvature
When you hear about “space-time,” it’s just a way to say that space is related to time. And the curvature of space-time, as Albert Einstein predicted, is the way space and time alike literally bend around a mass such as the…
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Galileo and Motion
Before Galileo’s time, Aristotle was the god of gravity. Seriously. Before Galileo came along, the question of how gravity worked was answered with another question: “What would Aristotle say?” Obviously, this method was faulty, since Aristotle was actually wrong about…
