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An exploration of physics and the quest to understand our world.
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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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October 31, 2008
October 30, 2008
E Pluribus Unum, Particle Style
It's not perfect, but the many-body problem is too hard to do more than once, on election day.
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October 29, 2008
Greatest Physicists #4 - Michael Faraday
Category: Greatest Physicists
One day sir, you may tax it.
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October 28, 2008
Children, Guns, and Pools
On the loss of a child to a firearms negligence.
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Are you feeling lucky, punk?
Bad equations, good answers.
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October 27, 2008
Brought to you by the ketter K
Maybe it's time for some new letters.
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October 25, 2008
The Starry Weekend
The sky of the fall has much to offer.
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October 24, 2008
Space Shuttle: Electric Boogaloo
A space shuttle launch is pretty expensive. Exactly how expensive depends on who you ask, but if you divide the yearly cost of the program by the number of launches you get something in the neighborhood of half a billion...
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October 23, 2008
Greatest Physicists #5 - Richard Feynman
Category: Greatest Physicists
#5 - Richard Feynman I'm probably going to take some flack for this one. Feynman was and is so popular as a scientific writer, raconteur, and honest-to-goodness celebrity that his staggering scientific accomplishments are sometimes lost in the shadow of...
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October 22, 2008
Cliff's Notes on NCIS.
You know what irritates me? NCIS. Not the Navy's law enforcement agency, the TV show about that organization. I'm generally a fan of Law and Order style police procedurals, but that one just rubs me the wrong way. Why? The...
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