Articles in category 'Physics'

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By Ben, 8/2/2008, 9:50 am o'clock

This is a fantastic page I’m turning here. I just acquired Seth Lloyd’s “Programming the Universe” … I have Gershenfeld’s “Fab” on tap and ready to go … of course I’m an amateur and have hardly an ounce of understanding concerning the actual technique and mathematics of this concept; I work with cruder forces. […]

By Ben, 6/20/2008, 7:20 pm o'clock

The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) is an astounding mission to explore the most extreme environments in the universe, search for signs of new laws of physics, what composes the mysterious dark matter, and secrets found in gamma ray explosions.
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By Ben, 6/14/2008, 8:36 pm o'clock

It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such events, both of which involve the creation of singularities requiring sophisticated mathematical techniques to describe, analyse and predict. On the positive side, there is much […]

By Ben, 6/4/2008, 8:45 am o'clock

The laws of physics are usually meant to be set in stone; variability is not usually part of physics. Yet contradicting Einstein’s tenet of the constancy of the speed of light raises nothing less than that possibility. In this video they will discuss some of the more dramatic implications of a varying speed of light. […]

By Ben, 5/17/2008, 12:57 pm o'clock

By Ben, 5/14/2008, 12:17 am o'clock

The “whole in every part” nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its […]

By Ben, 5/11/2008, 9:58 am o'clock

By Ben, 5/4/2008, 4:33 pm o'clock