Wendell, North Carolina. Wendell is a town in Wake County, North Carolina United States. It is a satellite town of Raleigh, the state capital. The population was 5,845 at the 2010 census.
Physics The 1920s were the most important decade in 20th century physics as scientists translated their experiments on atoms into quantum theory. Meanwhile, there was intense debate over Einstein's theories of space and time, and rocket science began on a farm in Massachusetts. Physics underwent a massive upheaval in the first two decades of the 20th century.
Fundamental mysteries. According to the standard Big Bang model, the universe was born during a period of inflation that began about 13.7 billion years ago. Like a rapidly expanding balloon, it swelled from a size smaller than an electron to nearly its current size within a tiny fraction of a second.iew full size image. Editor's Note: We asked several scientists from various fields what they thought were the greatest mysteries today, and then we added a few that were on our minds, too. This article is one of 15 in LiveScience's Greatest Mysteries series running each weekday.