Rants of a Science Pedant

The expansion of the universe, according to General Relativity, does NOT occur at a fixed speed. So it is meaningless to say it is faster th...

 I keep seeing articles and posts that say that atomic clocks are based on the vibrational frequency of atoms. I even see very specific, but...

As the name of this blog indicates I'm more concerned about getting everything, even the little things, right than most people. There ar...

I see lots of articles and posts about Quantum Mechanics (QM). Most, including the ones written by professional science communicators, are w...

 On June 13, 2023 a seminar was held at CERN to report some of the results and methods used by one of the major collaborations involved in ...

For a really long time, I've been trying to construct a simple explanation of Quantum Mechanics (QM) that could be understood without a ...

There has been a lot of coverage of infrared (IR) astronomy recently and, with the release of the first JWST image, this should continue. On...