experiments

  • What is the Scientific Method?

    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

    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

    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…

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