Nathan:
Well, as a lot people seem to have written in my high-school yearbook, "it's been real." I've enjoyed standing in for Dr. Oilcan and appreciate his gracious offer to have an experimentalist representative on his guest-blogging squad. As Aaron said,...
Posted on September 9, 2007 4:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ah, what loyal citizen of California doesn't remember singing the state song, I Love You, California, every morning. Or was it saying the Pledge...my memory's hazy. The reason I bring up state songs is not to bring up the ill-fated...
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Posted on September 7, 2007 3:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I should probably sneak in a few posts before Chad gets back. It's been a hectic week, as the time came for my current experiment (as it does for all experiments) where one stops futzing around trying to make things...
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Posted on September 7, 2007 11:29 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A little while ago, intrepid reporters from the Baltimore Sun dropped by my lab to investigate the newsworthiness of a paper (also on the ArXiv) that had just been published, about which I might talk a little bit before Chad...
Posted on August 31, 2007 8:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A long time ago, all you needed to think about and record the data you were interested in was a pen and some vellum, and maybe a few candles and a trusty manservant. Somewhere along the line, the chart recorder...
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Posted on August 30, 2007 6:02 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm here to depress you a little. First off, we have the upcoming anniversary of Katrina, about which Jane Dark has a tough tale to tell: The abandonment of a great city to time and tide is indeed both symptom...
Posted on August 29, 2007 11:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
But he's not cooler than me. Which is one of the things I thought of several times while reading Spook Country, his new novel. If you don't want the long version, here's the gist: it's decent, he's still pretty good,...
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Posted on August 29, 2007 12:34 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm off to Denver for a long weekend; two friends of mine are getting married (both PhD scientists, and exemplars of the two-body problem: one's doing a postdoc at Princeton, the other at MIT...) I get to wear a tux,...
Posted on August 24, 2007 7:34 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some things I've noticed lately: Anton Zeilinger (Vienna) has a blog. It's in German, but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I found that out at Michael Nielsen's place, where he's started blogging again after a little hiatus. In an...
Posted on August 23, 2007 10:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I see below that (in what comes as a total surprise) the string thread has already gotten lively. As an experimentalist doing quantum mechanics at the ultra-low-energy end, I don't have a strong opinion on string theory qua theory, and...
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Posted on August 18, 2007 9:00 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While I'm sure there will be a lot of chatter around here in the next few weeks about the vacuum (or, God help me, vacua), I feel like I should lay the groundwork by talking about laboratory vacuum. I know...
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Posted on August 18, 2007 12:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, I just flew in from DC, and boy, are my arms tired. But seriously, folks.... It's a fine thing to be asked to guestblog by the eminent Dr. Oilcan, and I'll do my best to entertain you sporadically over...
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Posted on August 17, 2007 10:30 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As mentioned several times hereabouts, Kate and I are headed to Japan on Saturday, where we'll be spending three weeks touring around and attending the World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama. We will have at least some Internet access, and...
Posted on August 16, 2007 4:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
