Physical Sciences

What's Wrong With The Second Law?

with the true meaning of the term entropy, and it all started to make sense. Entropy simply is the ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 20 2011 - 10:14am

Measure The Sun Yourself

output, perhaps broken out by spectrum (amount for each 'color') all the way from radio through ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 26 2011 - 7:11pm

Deriving the Maxwell Source Equations Using Quaternions (2/5)

the vector part is all cross product. The Lagrange density for the Maxwell source equation is the ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Sep 22 2011 - 10:38pm

Physics Nobel Prize For Einstein’s Greatest Blunder

became that indeed, the universe will expand ever faster, taking all galaxies away from each other, ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 4 2011 - 4:17pm

Hyperspace Helicopters: A December Season Puzzle

infinitely many directions inside the W- Z plane that are all orthogonal to the X- Y plane of rotation. While ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 30 2018 - 12:28am

Help High School Kids Visit CERN!

home, getting drunk and party all night, etcetera. But I am also sure their interest in visiting CERN is ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 6 2012 - 5:01am

SUSY: A Matter Of Prior Beliefs

me restate that: I believe Science does not progress at all if scientists fail to do so! I am ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 14 2012 - 4:58am

Higgs Live Blogging 4- Big Expectations

the live stream, you will see first of all lots of plots showing how the experiments detect their ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 1:17am

Rolf Heuer: "I Think We Have It"!

happens next? Well, there was a media storm of course. As for me, I had to work all day to a couple of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2012 - 6:19pm

Multiverse: A Religion?

all, but not in the sense that Tipler figured out in his entertaining but crazy book "The Physics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2012 - 1:33pm