The Physics Dept. at University of Redding faces the threat of being closed down due to lack of funding. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/10/4/1 Zz....
first it was U of Newcastle now this one. America is still the last best hope for physics research -- even with federal cutbacks. Celal ... From: ZapperZ...
With the media popularity of a number of field of studies in physics that have gone for years without any desire of experimental verifications, there is now a...
This is a very nice biography of Julian Schwinger. It is certainly a good introduction if you've never heard of the name. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610054 ...
If you have this nagging science question that you simply must ask and get and answer for, this might just be the perfect site for you: http://www.madsci.org/ ...
About 7 years ago, there was a claim that element 118 was synthesized. Unfortunately, the lead physicist in that work, Victor Ninov, was accused of falsifying...
... That's easy. They will. The earlier report cannot be reproduced (it was using a different techinique than this one), and it has been withdrawn. So that one...
For those of you who are not familiar with this, here's a brief background (which you can also read in the paper). The Schrodinger equation is often introduced...
I wonder what drives people to try to produce heavier and heavier atoms? Is it just becouse they want to test how far they can reach with creating stuff(to...
There's always going to be hand waving of some kind since classical mechanics follows logically from quantum mechanics but not vice versa. Rather than building...
The reason why it is done is test/verify our current knowledge of the strong interaction which is not particularly in depth at this point. Why? Although the...
Hi Zz, I didn't follow the whole Ninov story and thus didn't know some other group had actually tried to replicated the result. This new find by the Russian-Us...
... other ... creating ... method ... the ... which ... opinions ... I still don't think so. The issue surrounding Ninov is not just that his results can't be...
It's been interesting to watch the battle between Smolin, Woit, etc vs many others over the merits of string theory. For anyone interested, there is a lot of...
Well you know that the derivation requires more than just "knowledge of the electromagnetic wave equation and the basics of Einstein's special theory of...
If you're bored, then you can spend your time reading this two very long articles on the historical significance of one of John Van Vleck's papers during the...
If anyone wish to catch up on what we have so far, please read the following messages: So You Want To Be A Physicist - Intro (msg. #5) So You Want To Be A...
A new report states that a drop in the number of students taking A- level physics is part of the perception from students that science subjects are difficult. ...
Today is the decision day on the closing of Reading University's Physics Dept. Physicists are making last ditch effort to save it. http://tinyurl.com/y66chu If...
Since it is almost that time of the year (at least for us here in the northern hemisphere), I thought posting the website about snowflakes is appropriate. This...
A Wired news reported got a tour of the LHC at CERN. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72198-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Note the most dangerous part of being in...
The correct subject line should be something like: 'quantum superluminal effects? possible test'. But, at the bottom, the proposed experimental test (and the...
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