Recent content by Shawn Wheeler

"Max Planck (1858-1947), In 1900, proposed a solution to the puzzle of black body radiation. He suggested that rather than allowing the oscillating particles in a heated body to radiate energy continuously, as a wave would, purhaps they where constrained to discrete packets. He called these...

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First just let me say, I’m no physicist. I’m sure someone else will give a much more detailed and accurate response. However if I’m not mistaken, the reason why time travel is theoretically possible within a singularity is because anything is theoretically possible inside a singularity. Physics...

I was reading the other day about John Tyndall, who I believe was the first person to discover that because blue wavelengths are relatively short, they scatter and disperse more than red wavelengths. At this point I remembered that Einstein’s original theory of relativity had included a...