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Force Field Experimentation: How Faraday Discovered Electricity without Needing Math

Although we know how force fields work because of magnets and electricity, physics experimentalist and electromagnetic discoverer Michael Faraday discovered the unknown mysteries of electromagnetism and explained them using drawings, not calculations. Faraday had no formal education in math; his work was not converted to theory until James Clerk Maxwell did the reconstruction calculations. Read

By: Colette Grail | 20/11/2009 | Science

The Wright Brothers and leaving Earth for the Moon

The ways and means to achieve space travel outside Lower Earth Orbit is an obviously tremendous project that is most likely beyond the means of government project-lead capability. An encouraging example of entrepreneurship meets innovation for breaking paradigms is the Wright Brothers' story of mastering controlled flight. Read

By: Colette Grail | 09/11/2009 | Technology

The Citizen Scientist and Space Exploration

Citizen science is the term for other than “professional” scientists or experts participating in the science process in order to facilitate projects that are often beyond the physical or fiscal capability of the proposed science concept. Even NASA used the citizen science concept for asteroid watching Read

By: Colette Grail | 09/11/2009 | News & Society