Computer Aided Design & The 118 Elements
by Florin FODOR
Aerogels are synthetic, porous, ultralight, dry materials (unlike “regular” gels you might think of, which are usually wet like gelatin dessert). The word "aerogel" refers to the fact that aerogels are derived from gels – effectively the solid structure of a wet gel, in which the liquid component has been replaced with air or other... Continue Reading →
Antimatter is by far the most expensive and difficult stuff to get. The efficiency of antimatter production and storage is extremely low. Just to for context reference, about 1 billion times more energy is required to make antimatter than is finally contained in its mass. Using E = mc2, it was found that 1 gram... Continue Reading →
Matter is made of atoms and the way how they combine to create structures is fundamental knowledge for our understanding of everything in the universe. Well, just to generalize a little bit, because practically speaking this is a bit of overstatement. We are still far to understand "everything", for example we know almost nothing about... Continue Reading →
In a world where we say we value creativity and give out medals to reward its success, it’s odd that we still use gold, silver and bronze to do so. In a world where we have industrialized so many materials, including those we used to hold sacred, such as gold and diamond, I like to... Continue Reading →
Antimatter is at the center of one of the biggest mysteries: why isn't there more of it in the universe? The established wisdom is that the energetic fireball of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago spawned matter and antimatter in perfect balance.This transubstantiation of radiant energy into particle and antiparticle is not a one way... Continue Reading →
The answer to the question in headline is: NO. What you'll read next is the reason why not. Basically it's quite simple to grasp why this is out of reach. First of all is because we don’t know much about it, and second we simply don’t quite understand how antimatter behaves really nor we could... Continue Reading →
To many people, antimatter probably sounds a lot stranger than it really is. before to answer the question in the headline let me quickly say what antimatter is and does. In it's most basic sense, antimatter is just matter with its electrical charge reversed. When antimatter comes into contact with matter, the result is: annihilation. Then... Continue Reading →
Antimatter is not the stuff you interact with, the same as you do with matter. It was for long time and still is a hot topic for science fiction stories. However this stuff is experimantally confirmed to be real and it definitely worth to learn more about it. So what is it?. I will try... Continue Reading →
Periodic Table of Elements represents our knowledge about matter. There is still a lot to learn about and new stuff to discover but in general we are quite familiar with matter. We know well that ordinary matter is the familiar stuff, which makes air, rocks, and living things. But the opposite as we call it... Continue Reading →
In the universe there is a lot of stuff we know nothing about or we know very little. One of them is the thing called Antimatter. We only discovered its existence almost a century ago. Today we know it is there, but more than some basic characteristic properties just enough to have a clue about it,... Continue Reading →
Computer Aided Design & The 118 Elements 