Physics

"I Hate Work!" (and I Don't Do Applied Mathematics)

A bizarre title, but nothing to do with the fact that I am constitutionally lazy. Rather, it is related to the war I and a colleague are attempting to wage against the way physics is (in the UK at least) treated as a form of applied mathematics. It also ha ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 22 2008 - 10:09am

Tunneling Electrons And Phonon Interaction Leads To Graphene Discovery

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene flakes equipped with a "gate&quo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2008 - 2:18pm

China- The World's New Physics Powerhouse?

Judging by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, China is finding its place as one of the world’s scientific power houses, says Michael Banks, but he also quantifies this surge in scientific output China and measures wh ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2008 - 8:54pm

Beamline Experiment Makes A Tiny DaVinci's "Vitruvian Man" A Brilliant X-Ray Hologram

The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2008 - 3:08pm

Chaotic Behavior In The Quantum World Of Frozen Xenon

A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory – which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics – and the modern theory of quantum mechanics. The study demonstrated a fundamen ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2008 - 5:54pm

Space-time is a conserved current just like charge!

  The result of my research into F(4) symmetry and my theory of Quantum Space-Time Dynamics. Month's ago I wrote of my interest in researching the exceptional lie group and algebra F(4) in relation to the theory of Quantum Space-Time Dynamics.  I now ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 5 2010 - 7:08pm

TS2 On Target – View From The LOQ Cabin

Recently some people have disputed the existence of the NEUTRON, which if this had any sound basis would cast doubt on some of my recent activities. Maybe this is because the neutron has not had much of an impact in popular culture. The only item that I re ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Aug 16 2008 - 8:32pm

Efficient Organic LEDs May Be More Difficult Than Believed

Organic semiconductor or “plastic” LEDs are much cheaper and easier to fabricate than existing inorganic LEDs now used in traffic signals, some building lighting and as indicator lights on computers, TVs, cell phones, DVD players, modems, game consoles and ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2008 - 9:19pm

MRAM Experiment Sets New Speed Record And Even Hits The Fundamental Limit

Fast memory chips such as DRAMs and SRAMs (Dynamic and Static Random Access Memory) commonly used today have one decisive disadvantage: in case of power interruption, they lose their stored information. This problem could be solved by magnetic memory chips ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2008 - 9:15pm

LHC 'Discovery Machine' Will Find Higgs Boson In 2010, Says Physicist

The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC scientists will attempt to send the first beam of protons speedin ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2008 - 9:39am