Posts tagged physics
The Science Library
Finding and linking to the amazing things in this Universe
Corporate marketing from IBM - “A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie.” Even though I usually don’t reblog corporate content, it is still pretty interesting.
Geek Heaven. Wil Wheaton introduces the Bare Naked Ladies to perform Big Bang Theory theme song at ComicCon in SD.
CERN might build a larger collider to investigate the basic underpinnings of gravity
“The Large Hadron Collider that found the ‘God particle’ might be replaced by an even larger collider to solve new mysteries of the universe, such as how gravity interacts on a molecular level.
Researchers from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are proposing a new underground accelerator with a circumference of 80 kilometres - three times the size of the current one under Geneva, the Daily Mail reported.”
1992 video from the Fermilab Science Education Center; it’s a rap?
The center of the Earth is just a big giant iron crystal
“The iron alloys in the solid inner core of the Earth appear to have crystallized in such a way that it’s easier for energy to pass on the north-south axis than on the east-west, as described in a new study led by Maurizio Mattesini, a geologist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” Here is the abstract. Subscription is required to read the whole thing. I guess this is old news from 2010.
The first photo on the Web. Not what I expected.
From “Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders: The First Photo on the Web.” Found via Michael Sauers.
NPR noted that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is providing access to over 80,000 of Albert Einstein’s papers and letters to and from various scientists and other people. Check out:
Search for the Higgs boson continues
There is a new report from FermiLab — “Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson. Using different search techniques, Tevatron physicists see hints of Higgs boson sighting consistent with those from LHC.”
Good scientific explanation of the world record paper airplane throw.
Scale of the Universe 2
This is so, so cool. It takes this a long time (several minutes) to load up the flash, even on a campus network. It is worth the wait. Thanks Carl for the link.
