New posts in History

Einstein's initial clue that spacetime is curved

*Why* were the Chernobyl control rods tipped with graphite?

Rutherford/Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment: what did they really think about alpha particles?

On the Rømer experiments and the speed of light

$r$ and $R$ difference with Schwarzschild metric

History of Principle of Least Action

Why didn't Lorentz conclude that no object can go faster than light?

How did we 'discover' dark matter?

What was the 'quantum mechanics' before quantum mechanics?

Neutron discovery, why it couldn't be gamma ray? or other photon?