This module will allow you to use python to demonstrate Kepler’s First Law by graphically displaying different shapes of orbits. Additionally, you will be able to demonstrate the effect of ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe.

IN four papers 1–4, I have presented my conviction that it might be possible to describe the phenomena of physics by generalizing the laws of optics to space-time. Instead of looking immediately for a ...

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Monica Grady is Professor of Planetary and Space Science at The Open University, Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University and Senior Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum. She receives funding ...

Compared to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature ...

Most scientists and others believe in the so-called laws of physics (as do I). However, important questions about human behavior, psychology, and even free will are tied up in the question of whether ...

The laws of physics do not exist, a theoretical physicist named Sankar Das Sarma argues in a new column published by New Scientist. While we define the laws as the "ultimate laws" of our universe, ...