Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity
Lightning can carry between 100 million to one billion volts of electricity. (Josep Castells/Unsplash), CC BY Peter Watson,…
The planetary orbit in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ is random and chaotic, but could it exist?
The three-body problem is a familiar puzzle in astrophysics. (Shutterstock) Peter Watson, Carleton University Note: The following article…
A universe without mathematics is beyond the scope of our imagination
Mathematics is the language of the universe. (Shutterstock) Peter Watson, Carleton University Almost 400 years ago, in The…