Physics

The brakes on your car, the lift in the mechanics shop and standard construction machinery such as front end loaders, back hoes, and bull dozers all require hydraulics instrumentation to perform their function. In addition to this, all sorts of indust ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Mar 30 2015 - 9:28am

Fighting Plagiarism In Scientific Papers

Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery, they say (or rather, this is said of imitation). In arts- literature, music, painting- it can at times be tolerated, as an artist might want to take inspiration from others, elaborate on an idea, or give it ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 2 2015 - 7:16pm

Instead Of An April's Fool

Taking inspiration from Resonaances, who this year offers much more than an April's Fool in his blog (I am also flattered to see that I am featured there, and with a character of my liking), I am going to offer some predictions for the next run that t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2015 - 6:47am

Crackpots Or Math Fetishism, Heliocentric Analogy Supports Parallel World Paradigm

John Baez writes in " The Crackpot Index - A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics": ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 8 2015 - 5:33am

The Season Of Muons

Particle physics is so cool- you get to build huge detectors with a specific goal clearly stated in your letter of intents and technical proposals, but are then allowed to use them to study many other things. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2015 - 10:30am

Quantum Particles: Hot, Cold And Just Right All At The Same Time

Temperature allows us to make a simple statistical statement about the energy of particles without having to know the specific details of the system. How do quantum particles reach a state where statistical statements are possible? The result is surprisin ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2015 - 2:51pm

Glass Is Not Liquid But Metal Can Be Both

A very popular urban myth is that window glass is a liquid. This apparently originated by the recognition that old European cathedrals had windows with the glass being thicker at the bottom than the top. The actual cause of this is not attributable to g ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Apr 10 2015 - 6:45pm

The Journey to Presenting Relativization at the 2015 April APS Meeting. A Story of Quantum Gravity, and Airplanes.

O n April 11th 2015 I delivered a presentation on the subject of Quantum Gravity in which I questioned the basic assumption that quantum is more fundamental than relativity. Relativization is the name for the approach I propose. In a nutshell let us try ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 14 2015 - 5:14pm

Guess the Plot

I used to post on this blog very abstruse graphs from time to time, asking readers to guess what they represented. I don't know why I stopped it- it is fun. So here is a very colourful graph for you today. You are asked to guess what it represents. I ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 17 2015 - 8:33am

The Era Of The Atom

"The era of the atom" is a new book by Piero Martin and Alessandra Viola- for now the book is only printed in Italian (by Il Mulino), but I hope it will soon be translated in English. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 19 2015 - 2:06pm