This Week in Physics History: Nov. 24 - 30
Monday November 24, 2008
Nov. 27, 1701 - Anders Celsius is born. The Swedish inventor and astronomer is best known for the Celsius temperature scale that he devised.
Nov. 29, 1803 - Christian Doppler is ... Read More
Mass and Energy Relationship Confirmed
Saturday November 22, 2008
A research team has performed detailed calculations using quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to predict the masses of protons and neutrons from pure theory and come up with a result that contains ... Read More
Science and Religion in Conflict
Tuesday November 18, 2008
The conflict between science and religion has been around for centuries, perhaps most popularly highlighted as in the house arrest of Galileo Galilei for going against the Catholic Church's teachings ... Read More
This Week in Physics History: Nov. 17 - 23
Monday November 17, 2008
Nov. 23, 1837 - Dutch scientist and physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals is born. The van der Waals' forces are named after him, and he is known for extensive ... Read More
A Chance to See Dark Matter
Thursday November 13, 2008
Most of the matter in the universe is the mysterious dark matter, which astronomers can detect through gravitational effects but cannot actually see. The visible matter, or baryonic matter, ... Read More
Turning Radiation into Electricity
Wednesday November 12, 2008
According to some recent research, it looks like materials physicists may have uncovered properties of nanomaterials that may allow for more efficient conversion of nuclear energy - radiation - directly ... Read More
Role of Women in Physics
Tuesday November 11, 2008
It's probably not a huge surprise to most readers to know that most practicing physicists are men, but there are obvious questions about why this is the case. Another question ... Read More
This Week in Physics History: Nov. 10 - 16
Monday November 10, 2008
Nov. 15, 1630 - German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler dies. Kepler's laws defined the motion of planetary orbits about the sun, which were confirmed by the more detailed theoretical ... Read More
Possible Discovery of Supersymmetric Particles or Premature Hype?
Wednesday November 5, 2008
Okay, so this one may get a little hairy. Over the weekend, I caught whiff of this story in some back-and-forth between Woit's Not Even Wrong blog and Motl's Reference ... Read More
Film Review - NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea
Tuesday November 4, 2008
I am a fan of the PBS television series NOVA, which always does an excellent job of portraying science in a way that is accessible to the general public. A ... Read More
This Week in Physics History: Nov. 3 - 9
Monday November 3, 2008
Nov. 7, 1492 - A meteorite crashes to Earth around noon in a wheat field near Ensisheim, Alsace. The Ensisheim Meteorite is the oldest meteorite with a known date of ... Read More
Kid's TV Review: Sid the Science Kid
Sunday November 2, 2008
A relatively new show on PBS called Sid the Science Kid has begun to catch on with the three year old in my household, and I've got to say that ... Read More