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Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
"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)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: 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 by Nathan at 4:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Guest Bloggers
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...
Posted by Nathan at 3:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Guest Bloggers
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...
Posted by Nathan at 11:29 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Experiment
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 by Nathan at 8:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Experiment
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...
Posted by Nathan at 6:02 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Links Dump
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 by Nathan at 11:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
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,...
Posted by Nathan at 12:34 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Nathan
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 by Nathan at 7:34 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Links Dump
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 by Nathan at 10:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: String Theory
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...
Posted by Nathan at 9:00 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
