Neptune: The Nautical Sailor Planet at the Edge of the Solar System

Neptune in ultraviolet blue, a Voyager2 image from 1989

Neptune is a fascinating system, continually forging the outer edges of our solar system. The gas giant’s orbit is littered with debris, dust and objects that travel through the Oort Cloud and into the Kuiper Belt and get caught in the gravity of the huge frozen gas giant. With a day lasting about 16 hours, … Read more

Modeling the Behaviors of Hydrogen

Hydrogen_Fusion_Reaction_Simulator

Presenting Elliot’s Hydrogen Fusion Simulator, V1.0.0 It is fairly well accepted that the future of energy will be nuclear. The concept of a Dyson Sphere was first developed by Olaf Stapledon in his science fiction novel Star Maker (1937). The idea was further developed by the physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation“. … Read more