In physics, you come up with an idea, formulate it mathematically, find the theory's predictions about the real world, and test those predictions by experiment. This works because God is subtle, but not malicious (to borrow Einstein's words). In more...
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More bailout politics. I don't know why you read these, physics is more interesting.
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Category: Greatest Physicists
Why does Schrodinger deserve an epic poem? Because he's the 7th greatest physicist, that's why.
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Category: Sunday Function
The first prime with 100,000,000 digits will net the finder $150,000. Good luck!
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The debate? Didn't watch it. I'm keeping my "not watching the debates this year" record spotless. Not because I don't want to keep myself informed but because modern TV debate formats don't let anyone do anything but go for the...
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Don't read this if you dislike me being a reactionary.
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In conclusion, I want my robot car.
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We're holding a rock, and we drop it. What happens? There's lots of methods for treating this problem. We've done it with Newton's laws of force, and we've done that in more than one way. We've done the Lagrangian formulation...
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Category: Greatest Physicists
Dirac was a physicist of incredible brilliance even by the standards of the great physicists.
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Hey, I just wanted to draw some attention to this great post of Chad's about femtosecond lasers and laser bandwidth in physics and chemistry. Those lasers are near and dear to my heart, as they're one of the main focuses...
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