Unraveling Einstein’s Thought Process — “Logic will get you from A to B, imagination takes you everywhere” — Albert Einstein Let’s imagine you and your friend are traveling in a container in a certain direction with a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. Now you decide to play a catch game with your friend and…

From Falling Apples to Orbiting Planets — Thought experiments are a valuable tool in science, philosophy, and other fields. Throughout history, thought experiments have been employed, ranging from Galileo’s observation that objects of different masses fall to the ground simultaneously, to Einstein’s hypothetical pursuit of a light beam, which influenced his development of the special theory of…

The Enigmatic Void — Black holes are one of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. They are regions of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. …

The Importance of Imagination in Physics cannot be Overstated — “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was not just a physicist, but a true iconoclast whose…

Two Great Minds, Two Different Perspectives — “If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.” — Richard P. Feynman Richard Feynman (1918–1988) and Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) first met in 1947, when Feynman was working on his theory of quantum electrodynamics at Cornell University, and Dyson was a postgraduate physics researcher on…

From Cauchy to Dirac — A Century-Long Journey — “God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.” ― Paul Dirac The delta function is a mathematical concept that has played a significant role in various areas of science and engineering, from quantum mechanics to signal processing and probability theory…

A Pathway to Understand the World Around Us — “It seems plausible that the landscape is unimaginably large and diverse. Whether we like it or not, this is the kind of behavior that gives credence to the Anthropic Principle.” — Leonard Susskind The anthropic principle is a philosophical idea that attempts to explain the apparent fine-tuning of the physical…

The Surprising Science Behind the Phenomenon of Hot Water Freezing Faster than the Cold One — For centuries, scientists and philosophers such as Aristotle and Rene Descartes have noted that under specific conditions, hot water can freeze more quickly than cold water. This finding appears to defy common sense and contradict our usual expectations. Observing this effect through experimentation may seem like a straightforward process: take…

From Binary Stars to the Uncertainty Principle — “Only a vision of the whole, like that of a saint, a madman, or a mystic, will permit us to decipher the true organizing principles of the universe.” — Karl Schwarzschild We all identify Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916) as the physicist who presented the first exact solution to Einstein’s Field Equations…