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By Mark Stivers. More about Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle here.
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Tag: quantum physics
July 20, 2012
Gain Mass Fast. Take Higgs Boson Pills.
O.K. Not technically an accurate turn of phrase, but maybe a good visual segue into such matters.
By Frogsicle.
July 12, 2012
Large particle accelerators are the gothic cathedrals of our time. #lovelymetaphor
From the NYT piece by Lawrence M. Krauss.
“The physicist Victor F. Weisskopf — the colorful director in the early 1960s of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the collider — once described large particle accelerators as the gothic cathedrals of our time. Like those beautiful remnants of antiquity, accelerators require the cutting edge of technology, they take decades or more to build, and they require the concerted efforts of thousands of craftsmen and women. At CERN, each of the mammoth detectors used to study collisions requires the work of thousands of physicists, from scores of countries, speaking several dozen languages.”
Read the rest of the article here.
July 4, 2012
The Higgs Boson Walks into a Church…
First: this.
“Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.” (Also note the great quote by Hawking at the above link)
Via reddit, joke by Brian Mallow
May 29, 2012
Schrödinger’s Cat vs. Pavlov’s Dog: Who would win?
I suppose, technically, the fight is over (one way or another) once the dog takes a look at the cat…
Also available as a t-shirt – link.
May 25, 2012
Atomic model paintings by Brendan Monroe. #beautiful
After the New Model .18 x 18 in / 46 x 46 cm, acrylic on paper
After Bohr’s Model .18 x 18 in / 46 x 46 cm, acrylic on paper
This is a nice artistic treatment of the Bohr Model of atoms, which if you don’t quite remember, goes like this (from wiki):
“In atomic physics, the Bohr model, introduced by Niels Bohr in 1913, depicts the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus—similar in structure to the solar system, but with electrostatic forces providing attraction, rather than gravity. This was an improvement on the earlier cubic model (1902), the plum-pudding model (1904), the Saturnian model (1904), and the Rutherford model (1911). Since the Bohr model is a quantum-physics–based modification of the Rutherford model, many sources combine the two, referring to the Rutherford–Bohr model.”
By Brendan Monroe.
May 3, 2012
WANT! The atom ukulele.
I think this is making me freak out a little…
The Atom Ukulele, By Paul Celentano and available for purchase here.
April 26, 2012
The Higgs Boson Explained. Great video by the creators of PhD Comics.
Definitely worth geeking out to for 7 minutes.
Via PhD Comics.
April 20, 2012
Physicists make funny with a coffee machine. #quantum
(Can’t find the original source for this)
March 14, 2012
Lovely mnemonic for Pi involving liquor and physics.
It goes:
How I want a drink, alcoholic, of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!
If you count the letters in each word, you get: 3.14159265358979
This lovely bit of wordplay is attributed to Sir James Jeans (Gardner 1966, p. 92; Castellanos 1988, p. 152; Eves 1990, p. 122; Davis 1993, p. 9; Blatner 1997, p. 112).
