This blog was inspired by this fact:
The New York City water supply system leaks at a rate of up to 36 million US gallons (140,000 m^3) per day.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyregion/23tunnel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
Our water is extensively purified, and is completely safe to drink, but how can it be safe if some of the biggest supply pipes have holes all over?
Besides the full -on sanitation of the water, one part of the solution is that our water supply contains some
"The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contains 97 percent of the planet's water, yet more than 95 percent of the underwater world remains unexplored."
Source: http://www.noaa.gov/ocean.html
Many obstacles exist keeping widespread ocean exploration from becoming something not extremely difficult.
One obstacle is the pressure under water.
"The deeper you go under the sea, the greater the pressure of the water pushing down on you. For every 33 feet (10.06 meters) you g
Light is subject to a quantum theory called wave-particle duality. This theory proposes that matter exhibits both properties of a particle and properties of a wave.
The experiment that shows light's wave-like properties is the double slit experiment. when light was shone through two slits close together, and a screen was placed behind the slits, the impact pattern didn't look the way one would expect a particle impact pattern to look like. After going though the slits, the light diffracted, c
