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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.
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Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
Category: Physics
Are Los Alamos scientists really claiming to have made light move faster than light? No. They're just the victims of bad writing and worse copying.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:56 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Martin Perl, a 1995 Nobel laureate in Physics for the discovery of the tau lepton, was awarded an honorary degree yesterday at commencement. Perl actually has a significant Union connection-- he started his career as a chemical engineer, and was...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Experiment
What's the most absurdly detailed discussion you've ever been forced to sit through for no good reason?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:04 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
A scary-smart Harvard-MIT collaboration demonstrates a way to switch light fields on and off using other light fields, which is really cool, but all that much like the news story describing the work.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:20 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Physics World reports on the awarding of a major French prize in science: A physicist has been awarded France's top science prize for his work on atomic physics and quantum optics. Serge Haroche -- one of the founding fathers of...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Meetings
Quantum computing in diamond, cold spinor gases, and crazy precision measurements.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I'm a little surprised that I haven't seen bloggers commenting on Tom Hanks's appearance on The Daily Show, in which he talks about CERN: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cTom Hanksthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:47 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Via Michael Nielsen, a page documenting what I really hope is the dorkiest family vacation ever: Project GREAT: General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test Clocks, Kids, and General Relativity on Mt Rainier: In September 2005 (for the 50th anniversary of the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:01 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Silliness
You might think that Monday's discourse on thermodynamics in the Goldilocks story was the only children's story in which physics plays a role, but that's not true. Physics is everywhere in fairy tales. Take, for example, the story of Rumpelstiltskin,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:13 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
As I understand it, the Physics ArXiv Blog is not affiliated with the people who actually run the Arxiv (Paul Ginsparg et al.). Which is probably good, as I'm never entirely sure how seriously to take the papers they highlight....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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