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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.
You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.
"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: Quantum Computing
Today's Quantum Optics lecture is about quantum computing experiments, and how different types of systems stack up. Quantum computing, as you probably know if you're reading this blog, is based on building a computer whose "bits" can not only take...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:50 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
It's not getting as much press as the "X Prize" for private rocket launches, but NASA has quietly been running a contest for work toward a "space elevator," offering up to $2 million for a scheme to transmit power to...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:45 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
We're going to host the New York Section meeting of the American Physical Society next spring (joint with the New England Section, which will tax our resources), with the theme of the meeting being applications of nuclear physics. We've divided...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:13 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Publicity
... until the release of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. The official release is set for December 22nd, though the books are set to start printing in about three weeks. Exciting, isn't it? Are you excited about the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:54 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
One of my pet peeves about physics as perceived by the public and presented in the media is the way that everyone assumes that all physicists are theoretical particle physicists. Matt Springer points out another example of this, in this...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Polls
Here's an extremely dorky Dorky Poll topic. I can't believe I haven't used this one before: What sort of particles do you prefer?(poll) Choose only one....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:56 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Steelykid!
"Hey, SteelyKid, whatcha doin'?" "Nothin'. You know, hangin' out." "'S'cool." Just 63 weeks old, and already she's got the exaggerated casual thing down... Happily, she's not too cool to occasionally pose with her father:...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I've been buried in lab grading for a lot of this week, but I'm finally down to the last few stragglers. The experience has me thinking a bit about what we're doing here, and talking to people in other departments,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:13 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I gave a guest lecture this morning in a colleague's sophomore seminar class about time. She's having them look at time from a variety of perspectives, and they just finished reading Longitude, so she asked me to talk about the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I was surprised to see Tom linking to a site claiming a superconductor at 254K. Not because the figure isn't newsworthy, but because somebody sent me this about a week ago, and I decided not to link to it. It's...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
