Tom Hartsfield

Tom Hartsfield

Big Think Contributor

Tom Hartsfield is a PhD physicist. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
ape sign language
The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.
nanofabricators
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
planet 9
Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.
gravitational waves
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
endurance
A famous explorer's doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
chernobyl radiation
The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.