The First Ideas About Matter

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An interesting article I found in a book about the discovery of matter. Enjoy.


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How Things Break

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An article explaining the particle science behind how things break.


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How Things Break

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An article explaining the particle science behind how things break.


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Rates of Reaction

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Brief explanation of rates of chemical reactions.


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Aristotle’s Theory of the Elements

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A theory of the structure of the physical world that was put forth by Aristotle and was once widely believed and accepted. Although we now know this to be false, it is still intriguing to explore some of the tenets and concepts behind this once much-vaunted theory.


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The Large Hadron Collider: Helping You Sleep at Night

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There has been a media scare flocking the experimentation being conducted by CERN, near Geneva. Here is the simplest possible explanation of what these scientists are trying to achieve.


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The Large Hadron Collider: Rewriting History

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With an endeavour to recreate the very moment that exploded everything into existence, Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider fired a beam of protons on Wednesday, 10th September within a six meter circumference circle tunnel of 17miles or 27kilometers 100 meters below the French-Swiss border, on the outskirts of Geneva.


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Scientists Proved That Atom is Not the Smallest Particle of an Element

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All matter in this Universe is made up of different kinds of elements. There are about 100 types of elements. Elements are in turn made of atoms. These atoms are so tiny that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. Only a powerful microscope will reveal these atoms. In fact a pinhead contains about 10,000 atoms.


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