Physics

What Do You Do The Day After Mars Methane Measurements?

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Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 17 2009 - 10:15am

Bringing Skeletons Out Of The Quantum Closet

The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 Perhaps there is no greater demonstration of Einstein's brilliance and famous independence than his rejection of the spookiness at the heart of quantum theory. Einstein recognized early t ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 20 2009 - 3:06pm

Mystery Solved: How Very Massive Stars Form Despite The Force Of Light

Scientists have finally solved one of the major mysteries of star formation- how very massive stars form without blowing themselves apart in the process. According to star formation theory and previous simulations, the internal pressure created as a very m ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 20 2009 - 2:59pm

Supermassive Black Holes To Stars- It Wasn't Us!

A team of Yale University astronomers say that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation.     Astronomers be ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2009 - 5:04pm

Bragging Rights- Stanford Reclaims "World's Smallest Letters" Designation

How many Cardinals can fit on the head of a pin?   Still unknown, but Stanford physicists can at least tell us how many letters formed by quantum electron waves can fit on the surface of a sliver of copper- two; as in "S" and "U."   Tha ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2009 - 7:44pm

The "Practical" Benefits Of Elementary Particle Physics Research

The December '08 issue of symmetry magazine (http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/pdfs/200812/dec_2008.pdf) presents an interesting article about the benefits of particle physics research to society from an economic, social and education perspective.   The ...

Blog Post - Jon Lederman - Feb 6 2009 - 10:47am

.17 Solar Mass White Dwarf

Following the earlier discoveries of Hypervelocity Stars (  HVS)   (Warren Brown Harvard cfa et  all ),  massive search programmes  revealed  some 19 HV `s  and  counting,   and more recently  this  search revealed  low mass White Dwarfs.* ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Feb 6 2009 - 12:48pm

Finding Evidence Without An Eyewitness

Finding Evidence Without An Eyewitness Hi, my name is Bernie Horvath, I am the author of The Home and School Science Activity Books, Volumes I and II. My goal today is to demonstrate by simple experiments that we can prove that things exist without seeing ...

Blog Post - Bernard Horvath - Feb 6 2009 - 1:25pm

Get A Slice Of The Least Action!

I have been working in research for 36 years now.  As the millennium turned, and our department found itself being starved of staff like the Hodja’s Donkey, I found myself being called upon to assume some small teaching roles.  I found two incompatible thi ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Feb 9 2009 - 5:14am

The Role Of Everyday Ideas In Physical Theories (Locality Vs. Non-Locality)

A well known professor of analog circuit design and theory once said "all models are wrong".   Analog design is particularly rewarding and challenging, I believe, for this very reason.  Those words have echoed in my mind during many junctures in ...

Article - Jon Lederman - Feb 12 2009 - 11:36pm