Science and Energy

We live in a strange age; an age in which science and technology are providing us new knowledge and capabilities in many areas of endeavor but also an age in which a significant number of people are rejecting scientific thinking in favor of belief-based narratives. While the scientific process stems from observations leading to conceptual […]

About the (not so far) Far Infrared

When it comes to the electromagnetic spectrum, I tend to view things from the perspective of an atmospheric or astro- physicist. Normally, to me, the term far infrared means that part of the infrared spectrum at wavelengths longer than 25µm (one µm being one-millionth of a meter). This page at Cal Tech gives the astrophysical use […]