Einstein

“Ladies and Gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves” David Reitze, executive director of LIGO announced to the world at a press conference this afternoon. It is a momentous occasion as all of the predictions of Einstein’s general…

I've watched with amusement and annoyance the maelstrom of excitement that has swept the world of physics reporting the past few days. If you google 'gravitational waves' you will find a slew of articles published in all the leading…

Art is brain made. Art can be an escape valve, a revival but sometimes endowed with a strange or psychedelic character. Are artists alienated and crazy? Whereas scientists confirmed the link between creativity and mental illnesses, a new…

In pubs across the country, last Monday, Pint of Science kicked off a three-day extravaganza of fun, interesting and insightful lectures, about all things science. Dublin, Galway and Limerick were host to some fantastically named lectures…

November, or more accurately, Movember, is the month when men across the world grow moustaches in support of men’s health advocate, the Movember Foundation. It also tends to be the month when everybody wants to talk about moustaches in…

Gravity is something we all take for granted. When we drop something it falls to the ground. Just last week an entire packet of spaghetti dropped from its container onto the floor creating quite a lovely sculpture. I can hear my mom, “I’ve…

We have looked at the ground-breaking, yet controversial, 1919 expedition by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington which proved the theories of Albert Einstein to be true. Now, I want to look at some of the effects of Gravitational Lensing and also…