Posts about “physics”
The comments on these amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider are almost as awesome as the machine.
Eleven Questions
I’m not sure if this has been blogged to death and I just haven’t noticed, but there is a superb article on the Discover site detailing The 11 Greatest Unanswered Questions of Physics. What is dark matter? What is dark energy? How were the heavy elements from iron to uranium made? Do neutrinos have mass?
Football Physics
A University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football. After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight using computer simulations and the videotape of a single forward pass from a 1976 professional
In Theory
You really should read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late, great Douglas Adams. There’s a bit in there about Schrödinger’s cat that started me tumbling down a long road (many, many years ago) of trying to learn everything I could about physics, metaphysics, philosophy, blah blah blah. (Try to find a copy of
Football Physics
Here’s a nifty little article on the physics behind football tackles. link via Dan