Know Your Universe and Your Creator: Peering into Space
Source of Talks: NPR’s TED Radio Hour Brian Greene: How Did A Mistake Unlock One Of Space’s Mysteries? Phil Plait: How Can We Defend Earth From Asteroids? Jill Tarter: Are […]
Ted Talk: How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions | Jim Al-Khalili |
How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely […]
Paul Davies: The Best 5 Minute Video for the Argument from Design
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A small quote from the video: “It is extraordinary to ground the rationality and logical nature of […]
Video: Cosmological Constant: A Bone in the Throat of Physicists
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments To me the increasing complexity of our universe, which we can barely scratch at, speaks volumes about the creativity of our Merciful and Gracious […]
The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist
Suggested Reading and Viewing Nova Documentary on Mystery of Mathematics 2016 Nobel in Physics Shows Again: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the […]
History Channel Documentary: Einstein And Relativity
Suggested Reading Albert Einstein On The Spirituality That Comes From Scientific Inquiry 12 Famous Scientists On The Possibility Of God Albert Einstein’s search for God, a detailed study from the Islamic perspective Quantum […]
Physicists observe ‘negative mass’
Source: BBC Physicists have created a fluid with “negative mass”, which accelerates towards you when pushed. In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same […]
The fact the sky is dark reveals a lot about the Universe
Source: BBC It may seem utterly obvious that the sky is dark, but in fact it seems to give rise to a peculiar paradox about the cosmos Science writer and […]
The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics
Source: BBC By Philip Ball Nobody understands what consciousness is or how it works. Nobody understands quantum mechanics either. Could that be more than coincidence? “I cannot define the real […]
Speed of Light – Space Documentary
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299792458 metres per second (approximately 3.00×108 m/s, approximately […]
Don’t Let Them Tell You You’re Not at the Center of the Universe
Source: NY Times By Dennis Overbye Misconception: The universe started someplace. Actually: The Big Bang didn’t happen at a place; it happened at a time. “Where did the Big Bang […]
2016 Nobel in Physics Shows Again: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 3 Who Studied Unusual States of Matter Win Nobel Prize in Physics Source: NY Times By DENNIS OVERBYE and SEWELL CHAN […]
Is our Universe just a simulation?
Source: BBC By Philip Ball 5 September 2016 Are you real? What about me? These used to be questions that only philosophers worried about. Scientists just got on with figuring […]
Introducing a New Book About Dr. Abdus Salam Through His Quotes
Book Edited by our own Zakaria Virk “Scientist of the East”is a collections of 59 essays published soon after the discovery of Higgs particle in 2012 and Dr Salam contribution […]
BBC: Organisms May be Quantum Machines
Source: BBC By Martha Henriques Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties If there’s any subject […]
The quantum origin of time
Source: BBC By Philip Ball 11 July 2016 Science has a habit of asking stupid questions. Stupid, that is, by the standards of common sense. But time and time again […]
The real reasons nothing can go faster
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk It was September 2011 and physicist Antonio Ereditato had just shocked the world. The announcement he had made promised to overturn our understanding of the […]
Scientists Confirm Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves
Source: Time Scientists have confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves more than a century after the concept was first proposed, a dramatic discovery that could change the practice of astronomy, researchers announced Thursday. In September, laser facilities in Washington state and Louisiana both recorded the same distortion in space—measured as […]
You decide: What is the most beautiful equation?
Source: BBC There is a lot of beauty in mathematical equations. They represent some of the most profound rules that govern the Universe and everything in it. Understanding the most […]
How we know that atoms exist
Source: BBC By Chris Baraniuk Atoms are small. Really, really small. You’ll probably have heard that matter is made of bundles of these tiny things. You’ll likely also know that […]
