Astrophysics – Cantor's Archive

Geometry

Horrocks’ Measurements of How Far Away The Sun Is

Understanding the sun-to-planets absolute distances was a long-run investigation proceeding with new scientific-tools and new laws. As a police case requires time and symmetry of action that concatenates all threads within one bracket, space exploration is alike. At the time of Venus transit in 1761, scientists had all to kill

Kepler

Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion, Vector Calculus, and Force of Gravity

How ‘vector interpretation’ of Kepler’s second law hints at the presence of gravitational force between the Sun and a planet

Relativity

Why Time Is Encoded in the Geometry of Space

An Introduction to Geometrodynamics

Newton

The Genius of Isaac Newton

A Modern Derivation of Newton’s Revolutionary Proof of the Inverse-Square Law

Gravity

Physics Puzzles: Why Satellites Don’t Fall From the Sky

Gravitation is ubiquitous. Its presence is felt at any place. Isolation doesn’t exist in the universe; everything stays connected with…

Particle Physics

Understanding the Higgs Mechanism

A non-metaphoric explanation

Particle Physics

Capturing the Ghosts of the Universe

70 Billion. That’s how many particles are passing through every square centimetre of your skin each second. This is not a sci-fi novel; the most fundamental laws of the universe conspire to make it so.

Astrophysics

The Speed Of Light

Have you thought much about the speed of light and its implications? If not, you really should. Therein lie marvels.

Simulation

Modelling and Simulation of Inverted Pendulum

Third article in series of Control systems

Geometry

How Aristarchus Estimated the Distance to the Sun

How far are you, my Sunshine?

Geometry

How They Estimated the Distance to The Moon

Two independent methods, two genius minds: How Aristarchus and Hipparchus calculated the Earth-Moon distance.

Geometry

How Aristarchus Found the Size of the Moon

How big are you, my precious Moon?