Physics

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and highest-energy particle collider, goes live in Switzerland

By Peter Schulte / September 10, 2008

It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries.

Arthur Eddington publishes The Internal Constitution of the Stars correctly speculating about the existence of nuclear fusion

By Peter Schulte / December 19, 1920

At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery; Eddington correctly speculated that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium, liberating enormous energy according to Einstein’s equation E = mc2.

Galileo Galilei makes key observations of physics and astronomy, laying the foundation for modern science

By Peter Schulte / January 5, 1630

Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution.