The Boy Who Played with Fusion March 21st, 2016 @ 1:03 pm PDT
On Time March 20th, 2016 @ 9:43 am PDT
When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. Albert Einstein
Don’t Merge Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes October 15th, 2013 @ 6:11 am PDT
Large Hadron Collider August 1st, 2008 @ 2:39 pm PDT
The comments on these amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider are almost as awesome as the machine.
Bugs Bunny, Greatest Baseball Player Ever May 14th, 2008 @ 5:48 am PDT
We are then introduced to the shabby state of both the grounds keeping and of stadium security at the Polo Grounds, as we see an angry rabbit (Bugs Bunny, RHP/UT) is able to heckle the visiting team from left field, where he has dug a fairly substantial hole, and is enjoying a carrot-dog and (it […]
Eleven Questions April 2nd, 2002 @ 9:43 am PDT
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 September 26th, 2001 @ 3:58 pm PDT
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 August 13th, 2001 @ 12:01 pm PDT
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 January 25th, 2001 @ 8:53 am PDT
Here’s a nifty little article on the physics behind football tackles. link via Dan
Britney Spears Guide January 18th, 2001 @ 8:36 am PDT
From the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics: It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics. Not content with just singing, in the following pages, she will guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to hear her super music in […]
