Trevor Hoglund

05 Feb 2016

The feasibility of spontaneously morphing into an octopus

This argument has been deemed quite controversial: Is it possible for one to simply become an octopus without outside forces acting upon them?

02 Dec 2015

A student's guide to pencils

Pencils are pencils, but to say all pencils were created equal is a stretch of the imagination that one should not be so willing to make. What exactly is a pencil? Here we shall assume that a pencil is a utensil that utilizes graphite to write, so as to be able to easily erase any erroneous marks. Such a definition creates a massive pool of possible tools that may be dubbed "pencil." What could possibly mark some pencils greater than other pencils?

18 Nov 2015

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity explains occurrences in the universe

Four score and another score ago, Einstein introduced the idea of general relativity, well, that’s when he presented the results at the Prussian Academy of Science. Unlike previous models for gravity and such, this relativity thing actually accounted for reality.

06 Nov 2015

Physics lab gets spooky on Halloween

On Halloween, which was Saturday, more specifically: Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. Well, really specifically: Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015 from 5 p.m. to about 9 p.m. Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, on Saturday, which was Halloween, the UW–River Falls Society of Physics Students and Chem Demons held their annual Haunted Lab.

29 Oct 2015

Office chair provides fun, convenience, comfort

The UW-River Falls campus classrooms are sprinkled with a wide assortment of differing sorts of chairs.

08 Oct 2015

UWRF Society of Physics Students Chapter visits 3M

On Saturday, Oct. 3, several members of the UW–River Falls Society of Physics Students Chapter attended 3M’s Super Science Saturday.