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Big Bang (english version)
It all started with the Big Bang. The famous "Big Bang" was the primordial event of the universe. Contrary to what is often thought, the...

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May 12, 20206 min read


How to study the cosmos
In the beginning, astronomy was made with the use of optical telescopes, such as with Galileo's refractor and Newton's reflector...

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May 6, 20203 min read


Scientific revolution
The fascination of humanity with reason as a way of thinking is an aspect that has persisted since ancient philosophers, who were mostly...

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May 2, 20203 min read


Career in science
Science is the way humans access knowledge. Scientists are people who have chosen a career in which they will pursue the truth. In order...

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Apr 12, 20203 min read


Electric dipole
The electric dipole is the simplest neutral electrical configuration that can be found in nature. Pure dipoles (not approximations) are...

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Apr 5, 20204 min read


Coronavirus
Since January of this year,2020, a virus has been attracting the world's attention; it is covid-19, also called "coronavirus". COVID-19...

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Mar 21, 20203 min read


Quantum field theory
Please note that the photos were written in portuguese. However, there is much math which can be understood independently. Quantum field...

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Mar 8, 20208 min read


Measures in astronomy, cosmic perspective and address
"Pale blue dot." This is how the great scientist, Carl Sagan, described Earth in a photo taken by the Voyager I space probe, at a...

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Feb 22, 20203 min read


Spin (english version)
Photo 1: Spin (artistic representation) Photo 2: Orbital angular momentum operators Photo 3: Stern-Gerlach experiment Photo 4: Bloch...

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Feb 15, 20201 min read


Schrödinger's equation
To read this article, I recommend that you accompany the equations and sheets listed in the photos in this publication (they are written...

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Feb 15, 202014 min read


Star clusters
Star clusters are, as the name implies, a substantial set of several stars relatively close together. Stars are commonly formed in large...

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Dec 24, 20192 min read


The photoelectric effect
The photoelectric effect was one of the levers that propelled the merge of quantum mechanics, being intrinsically linked to Max Planck's...

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Nov 10, 20193 min read


Helical engine
Recently an engineer from NASA published an independent research (that is, without affiliation with the space agency) in which he...

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Oct 26, 20194 min read


Quasars (simple version)
Quasars are extreme cosmic objects, conceiving the classification of active galactic nuclei. One of the most prominent factors of quasars...

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Oct 22, 20193 min read


Quasars (complete version)
Quasars are extreme cosmic objects, conceiving the classification of active galactic nuclei. One of the most prominent factors of quasars...

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Oct 22, 20196 min read


The Nobel Prize in physics 2019
Today (October 8) the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced! Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz along with...

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Oct 8, 20191 min read


Albert Einstein (English version)
Einstein was undoubtedly one of the most important and revolutionary scientists who ever lived; The physicist made such a contribution to...

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Oct 8, 20194 min read


Kip Thorne (English version)
Longtime friend of brilliant Hawking, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne shares many of his comrade's remarkable characteristics such as...

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Oct 8, 20192 min read


Quantum fluctuations, Casimir effect and Dirac's equation.
When the term "vacuum" is uttered an idea of "empty space" is immediately referred to the interlocutor's thinking. In ordinary studies,...

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Oct 8, 20196 min read


Accretion discs
Accretion discs are circular clumps of matter/dust that orbit a central body, which can be a young star, a neutron star, a white dwarf or...

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Oct 7, 20192 min read
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