Richard panek
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The Comforting Certainty of Unanswered Questions
Light was thought to travel through aether like waves on a lakeShutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You might know the anecdote. In April 1900, Lord Kelvin, one of the most prominent physicists of the 19th century, stands in the speaker’s well of the Royal Society in London. […] -
Hero Planet, or Plebian?
Far from being romantic heroes, starless planets may be a dime a dozen.