Category: General Science

Tru Dat!

What is “truth” or “knowledge”? Can we have “alternative facts”, my reality vs your reality, or are ideas a simple black and white true or false? As with many things in life, the answer...

Inflation, BICEP2, and the Primordial B

On Twitter I retweeted a link that shows Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprising Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic inflation theory. He needed to sit down after hearing the news. This recent scientific discovery...

It’s the Higgs, baby!

July 4, 2012 was a very big day. Yes, it was Independence Day in the United States, but that comes every year. On July 4, 2012, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) officially...