Wojciech Wieczorek – Cantor's Archive

Particle Physics

The Discovery of Spontaneous Radioactivity

Sweety, let me see what you got inside.

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

Relativity

The Lorentz Transformation

And how to repair physics

Light

The Michelson-Morley Experiment

Light, you are the strangest thing I have ever “seen.”

Light

The Physics of Rainbows

How and why they appear in the sky.

Puzzle

Heron’s Shortest Path Problem

Which path minimizes the distance needed to get water and then transport it to the green village?

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…

Physics

Physics Puzzles: A Pebble Thrown in the Air

Will It Take Longer to Go Up or Down?

Geometry

The Law of Sines with Proof

It states that the ratio of any side to the opposite sine in a given triangle has a constant value.

Geometry

How Aristarchus Estimated the Distance to the Sun

How far are you, my Sunshine?

Geometry

Newton’s Shell Theorem

What concerned his mind for 20-years.

Geometry

How They Estimated the Distance to The Moon

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