Nuclear fusion is awesome. It's about time I did a blog post on fusion - I'll jump straight into it. Nuclear fusion is the reaction in which two smaller atoms fuse together and make one bigger atom. The best example of this process is right above our heads (or below your feet, depending on the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
The Italian Ghost Particle
So about a week ago, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations which showed that neutrinos have mass. It turns out that this is a pretty big deal for particle physics (hence, why they won the Nobel Prize), and it also … [Read more...]
Crash Course in Atom Splitting
So last term in Physics we covered Nuclear Physics, which my friends would know is something I'm somewhat kinda really interested in. Nukes are pretty cool, the ones that generate electricity, I mean. When anyone talks about nuclear technology or uranium, people immediately begin thinking about the … [Read more...]