Tag: physics
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November 17, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
A new Theory of Everything was reported this week in the New Scientist in a paper titled , "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything." * . . .
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February 16, 2009 08:07 PM EST --
Who Am I:
- I hail from from the City of Angels, Los Angeles, and was born on May 21, 1951.
- I received a bachelor's degree in English and Physics from Stanford University and also earned . . .
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November 15, 2007 08:53 AM EST --
THE ORIGINAL "SANTA PHYSICS" PROPOSAL AND A REBUTTAL
THE ORIGINAL "SANTA PHYSICS" PROPOSAL:
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living . . .
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June 11, 2006 02:45 AM EDT --
With a new hurricane season upon us I thought it might be fun to post a series of letters I wrote for the young daughter of my dear friends in Chicago. The letters attempt to answer a question her father . . .
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July 13, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
Last week, I saw a presentation on NovaNow about Dark Matter and how they are trying to find it in this mine, spending thousands of dollars, but so far have not found anything.
Now, I was very intrigued . . .
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December 14, 2008 10:28 PM EST --
He's always been a smarty pants, but I am so proud of him. With two kids and a wife, he runs a company. He got the job as manager of physics plant where they grow crystals for nuclear badges. . . .
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August 11, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
Not only will you never touch me, you're not even able to do so. In fact, you have NEVER touched ANYTHING in your whole life. When you "touch" a table, for example, the electrons in your . . .
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March 22, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
A lifetime studying quantum mechanics has convinced Bernard d'Espagnat that the world we perceive is merely a shadow of the ultimate reality
"Entanglement-at-a-distance does physically exist, . . .
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February 29, 2008 07:47 AM EST --
Sailing the Maelstrom: A Case and a Curriculum for Meta-Science
When I was a child, my mother had a mantra that went like this: "He's going to be a marine biologist like his . . .
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July 12, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
Thousands of years ago Sacrates devoted some time to calculating the number of grains of sand that it would take to fill the universe. Which in his time was a good exercise in estimating the size . . .
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February 07, 2009 03:15 PM EST --
Am I but a string?
A reductionist's plaything?
No, I'm a frayed knot!
(Old jokes are the best jokes...)
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October 18, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
Interesting emmissions found at the edge of our solar system!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091015-space-bubble.html
Any comments?
Any Speculation as to what . . .
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February 01, 2009 04:39 PM EST --
A Brief History of Time
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Stephen Hawking
Bantam Press
2008, ISBN 9780593060506, Hardcover, 242pages
Though it remains the world’s bestselling science book, . . .
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March 28, 2007 03:35 PM EDT --
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Edited 07/09/07 to include newly joined groups in distribution.
The previous consensus amongst scientists that sub-atomic particles were “stringlike” in nature . . .
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April 12, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
There is a tendency on the part of some Christians to see science as the enemy of religion. But many scientists are very spiritual. They may not be a member of an organized religion, but they believe . . .
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May 07, 2008 05:30 AM EDT --
The present exorbitant price of gasoline has divided Americans into two categories. The first comprises those who moan about it; and cut back on groceries and even delay paying insurance premiums, . . .
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January 08, 2009 10:02 AM EST --
Chicago (Reuters) ~ U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics , and said on Wednesday they might use it to help make tiny . . .
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August 14, 2009 01:23 PM EDT --
There’s nothing like a movie with great physics, if you can manage to understand the subject. For all the physics geeks out there, here is a great list of movies with good and very bad examples . . .
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June 16, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
Here is the next in a series of letters I wrote for the young daughter of my dear friends in Chicago. The letters attempt to answer a question her father posed to me in reply to an e-mail I sent him . . .
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November 22, 2009 09:39 PM EST --
Entanglement is a phenomenon of quantum mechanics in which distant particles remain somehow mysteriously related to each other long after they were last in contact (in fact, in some cases particles . . .
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