The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”.
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Fiction Lab
Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you’re an interested reader who has something to say, then come along. The format of Fiction Lab is simple. All you need to do is check this webpage for the book choice, read the book beforehand and then […]
Einstein in the 21st Century
To Einstein science provided not only a means for understanding the behaviour of the universe but also a foundation for considering the deeper questions of life. A century after the publication of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which totally transformed our understanding of space, time and gravity, and thus the entire physics of the universe, […]
The Physicist and The Philosopher
Ian Sillett reads about a momentous clash between two intellectual giants in 1922
Time Travel – Is it possible?
Universe-ending paradoxes aside, Andrew McMahon discusses what physics has to say about time machines