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Music of the Quantum
The weird quantum nature of the atomic world challenges us to revise the way we view the world around us. We learn that our everyday world – built out of the myriad superposition of matter waves, has an unexpected capacity for new kinds of behavior and “self organization” that we are only just beginning to…
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Cassiopeia A
In conclusion, we have a rich panorama of experiments that all make use of neutrinos as probes of exotic phenomena as well as processes which we have to measure better to gain understanding of fundamental physics as well as gather information about the universe. See:Vernon Barger: perspectives on neutrino physics May 22, 2008 This image…
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Physicists Discover How to Entangle at High Temperatures
While I do not just like to echo in the world of information it is important to me to see how we can use entanglement to give us information about quantum gravity. Is it possible? Entanglement is the weird quantum process in which two objects share the same existence. So a measurement on one object…
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Macroscopic Similarities in a Microscopic World
Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large DatabasesJon Bashor In the world of physics, one of the most elusive events is the creation and detection of “quark-gluon plasma,” the theorized atomic outcome of the “Big Bang” which could provide insight into the origins of the universe. By using experiments that involve millions of…
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Pushing Back Time
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S.Park & D.Burrows.; Optical: NASA/STScI/CfA/P.Challis February 24, 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most spectacular events observed by astronomers in modern times, Supernova 1987A. The destruction of a massive star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, spawned detailed observations by many different telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…
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SuperCritical Fluid
What choice do I have but to quote myself.:) At 11:47 AM, January 09, 2009, Blogger Plato said… Superfluous is a mathematical construct for sure. Continuity, asked not from the condense matter theorist point of view as Jacque’s remind, or, as Susskind speaks of Laughlin( was Susskind ever aware of Witten’s statements?) Edward WittenEdward Witten’s…
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Is the LHC Leaking Energy?
This is not to bring “the doom and gloom of micro blackhole creation” into the picture although I do see that the QGP arrived at can bring other perspectives forward, that would relegate questions to my mind. For instance. So to be clear then, the QGP is relativistic. This I understood already. This to me…
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The Extra Dimensions in the LHC
String Theorists, for a million bucks, do you think you can answer “the question” and it’s applicability? Now it should be clear here that while I speak of extra dimensions I am referring to that energy that is not accountable, “after the collision process and particle identifications have been calculated.” For the first time the…
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SuperFluids
MIT physicists create new form of matter by Lori Valigra, Special to MIT News Office June 22, 2005 A superfluid gas can flow without resistance. It can be clearly distinguished from a normal gas when it is rotated. A normal gas rotates like an ordinary object, but a superfluid can only rotate when it forms…
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Polar Flips
Sometimes it is necessary to see the deep impact a thought could have as we try to understand the implications of a “sphere dropped in a viscously liquid” that we might find another correlation in how we see the photon affected in the gravitational field. Can we grasped the feeling illicitated to say we have…
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Relativistic Fluid Dynamics
The Navier-Stokes equations A bubble is a minimal-energy surface The Navier-Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, are a set of equations that describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. These equations establish that changes in momentum in infinitesimal volumes of fluid are simply the product of changes…
