Monthly Archives: April 2024

Chemical Black Hole Horizons and Light-Matter Interactions at the APS EGLS Spring Meeting

I had a blast this weekend traveling with three Wooster students to the spring meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes section of the American Physical Society, at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.  Two students (Junior Tali Lansing and Senior Kelsey … Continue reading

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Measuring the Solar System

Thousands of years ago, ancient astronomers like Aristarchus and Eratosthenes combined careful observations with simple mathematics to measure the solar system, especially the diameters D of Earth, Luna (Earth’s moon), Sol (Earth’s star, the sun), and the radii r of their … Continue reading

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