Category Archives: Science

Model Rocket Launch

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Today I went to my daughter’s school to launch a rocket for her astronomy class. The rocket I launched was a large one: my daughter had been telling her classmates about it and several of them did not believe in … Continue reading →

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Dwarf Planets

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. —From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) As we contemplate the fact that Pluto is now to be classified as a “dwarf … Continue reading →

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WISE

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Go outside tonight after the sun has long set. Find a place where there are no streetlights and you haven’t a flashlight or match. Choose a night when the moon is not up and its cloudy. Now, toss your car … Continue reading →

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Year of the Dragon

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

It may not seem like it, but the world changed on May 31, 2012. Less than a year after the Space Shuttles were retired, an American spaceship had once again reached the space station and returned safely. Launched on a … Continue reading →

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Transister

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

A bit more than fifty years ago, in 1960, Sony introduced the first transistor radio. At the time, and for several years thereafter, claiming a new device had transistors was used as a marketing ploy, much as high definition is … Continue reading →

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Titan

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Titan is Saturn’s largest moon. If you go outside some evening now, you’ll be able to see Saturn, looking like a very bright yellow star. If you have a small telescope, you should have little trouble seeing its rings and … Continue reading →

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Tipler

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Back in 1994 Frank J. Tipler, a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University in New Orleans published a book, The Physics of Immortality, in which he argued that immortality and the resurrection of the dead were consistent with the … Continue reading →

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Time

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

We’re more than ten years past our fears of Y2K and more than ten percent of the twenty-first century is now history. As long as there have been human beings, they have kept track of the time. Through most of … Continue reading →

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Tesla Coil

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

When I was growing up I came upon an old 1940 Popular Science magazine (and yes, it was old even when I was growing up). Inside, I read an article that gave detailed instructions on how to build something called … Continue reading →

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Telescopes

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

As a child I had wanted to be an astronomer. Instead, I became an author and a theologian. But I’ve never lost my love of astronomy. My first telescope was made of plastic; it was a reflector and was supposed … Continue reading →

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