Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Perimeter) invites you to celebrate 25 years of discovery with the opening of ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

Physicist Andrzej Dragan highlights the critical role of Galileo's principle, which asserts that the laws of physics apply universally to all inertial observers. Traditionally, this has been ...

Physics is a continually advancing field, with new discoveries occurring daily. Newton’s theory of gravity and Galileo’s ...

A google search for "Galileo's thermometer" should turn up a retailer. Disclaimer: All demonstrations are posted for the convenience and benefit of faculty and staff in the Department of Physics at ...

They are not to scale but are in their relative positions. Credit: NASA/JPL Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

Isaac Newton built on many of Galileo's insights when developing his ... A prodigy in mathematics and physics, Newton began many revolutionary advances about matter, motion, and light while ...

Galileo's thermometer is a sealed liquid-filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats (in this case, labelled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C). The ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...

Such courses are found in the departments of History, Philosophy, Classics, Physics, Biology, Astronomy ... as well as the dramatic struggles of famous scientists such as Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein ...