Physical Sciences

Should We Trust Experts?

making sure that all you well-that’s-all-in-the-past wishful thinkers may sober up. The Dawn of Quantum ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 20 2011 - 9:53am

Cosmic Flash Memory

largest objects in the universe. When the dust settles It takes a while, but at some moment in time all ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 27 2009 - 11:57pm

Tautological Description-Relativistic Metaphysics IS The Theory Of Everything

necessarily exist. 2) Being fundamentally possible means to be in the totality of all possibilities, ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 17 2015 - 8:32am

Computer Scientist Mark Jacobson Can't Sue His Way To Competence

and cutting emissions, after all.  But they knew bad claims sowed distrust by the public in the work ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2017 - 6:56am

A Theory of Time- Part Two

now select your pebbles to a close standard size by using the Goldilocks test.  If they all came from ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2009 - 12:54am

Why Quantum Mechanics Is Weird

consistent with experiments. Well, not exactly. We also demand the back story, why it all works. That is the ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jun 8 2011 - 11:17pm

Auralization, Acoustics And The Quest For The Perfect Concert Hall

pure diffusion, no sound energy is converted, but it is all scattered in different directions. For ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 24 2008 - 11:58am

King Coal And The Heat Values Of Fuels

to steam-engines* but to all imaginable heat-engines, whatever the working substance and whatever the ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 9:45am

A Top Cross Section Measurement I Like

colleagues in Padova and I to first observe the all-hadronic decay of top quark pairs. What was there left to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 14 2011 - 1:35am

Why The Higgs Is A Bad Ballerina

"rotation" is fixed and quantized. And--worst of all--the electron, and all other particles like it (called ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Aug 12 2012 - 10:36pm