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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: Course Reports
It's been a little while since I wrote up what I've been doing in my "Brief History of Timekeeping" class, because I was out of town, and then catching up from being out of town. Some of this material has...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:42 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Over at Backreaction, Bee is running an advent calendar of her own, with amusing anecdotes about famous physicists. Apparently, it's a good year for advent calendars. A couple of days ago, her story was a famous one about Heisenberg nearly...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:29 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Physics World has released its list of the top ten breakthroughs in physics for the year, and it doesn't include either fast neutrinos or the Higgs boson: The two physics stories that dominated the news in 2011 were questions rather...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I was planning to let today's Higgs press conference pass with only a few oblique mentions in posts about other things, but apparently, I would lose my license to blog about physics if I did that. You'd think that, being...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Advent
Having covered most of what you need to know about classical physics, the traditional next step is to talk about electricity and magnetism, colloquially known as "E&M," though really, "E and B" would be more appropriate, as the fundamental quantities...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 7:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
A few months back, I did a post about estimating the time required for the different routes I take to work, looking at the question of whether it's better to take a shorter route with a small number of slow...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:40 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
One of the more reasonable criticisms of the OPERA result showing neutrinos apparently moving faster than light was that they were claiming 20-nanosecond resolution on the timing of a neutrino pulse that was 10000 nanoseconds long. They got their timing...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:31 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I've been incredibly busy this term, but not so busy I couldn't create more work for myself. Specifically, by writing an opinion piece for Physics World about the FTL neutrino business, that just went live on their web site: The...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
It's been a while since I posted anything science-y, and I've got some time between flipping pancakes, so here's an odd thing from the last few weeks of science news. Last week, there was an article in Nature about the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:18 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
In a lot of ways, the OPERA fast-neutrino business has been less a story about science than a story about the perils of the new media landscape. We went through another stage of this a day or two ago, with...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:34 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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