Snowballing Theories

In a recent article addressing the big bang theory, Dr. Danny Faulkner made a statement that especially stood out to me: “If a scientific theory can be freely amended to account for any new challenges, then can the theory ever be proved wrong? In science it’s important that an idea be able to be proved […]

Sunspot Spy

As the sun’s magnetic field fluctuates, so do the number of sunspots which it produces. This process occurs in a regular 11-year cycle. ​When the count is high, indicating high magnetic activity within the sun, so is the probability for solar flares, CME’s (coronal mass ejections), and other such stellar phenomena. In addition to being […]