Most scientific research is directed towards answering a question. Fortunately for researchers, there are a lot of questions in science that don’t yet have answers, some of which are quite fundamental. If you do a quick google search for ‘unanswered questions in science’, for example, you’ll come across questions like: What is spacetime? What is […]
Month: October 2019
Picturing sound
This is a post about a possible misconception about sound that can be gained from a common method of drawing sound waves. Sound is caused by vibrating objects. Those vibrations cause disturbances to the particles of the surrounding medium (air, for example). Those particles disturb their neighbours, and the disturbance propagates outwards as a wave […]