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sam beckett

  • September 7th, 2009

Imagine if a cold cup of coffee spontaneously heated up as you watched. Or a cracked pane of glass suddenly un-broke. According to physicist Lorenzo Maccone at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you see things like this all the time – you just don’t remember. In a paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, he [ READ MORE ]

Finding the Higgs-Boson

  • April 16th, 2008

Finding the Higgs-Boson is the imperative of the two most powerful particle accelerators ever built—the Tevatron at Fermilab, now reaching the peak of its decades-long performance, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where beams will circulate for the first time around a 27-km track within the next few months.  The Higgs has not yet [ READ MORE ]

relativity

  • September 5th, 2007

i’ve mentioned escher before on the blog, but not as much as i should. in any case, mostly everyone knows his most famous paradoxical and symmetrical art pieces. (and if you don’t, what world have you been living in?) anyway, a lego maestro decided to make the picture above into the genius work below. [ READ MORE ]

One 120MW ring to rule them all.

  • May 23rd, 2007

In the latest AIP Physics News Update there is a summary of a “soon to be released” physics paper that describes how measurements made with the new Large Hadron Collider could affect big-bang nucleosynthesis models. Evidently the LHC has the potential to create a supersymmetric particle that would have only existed at the dawn [ READ MORE ]

eureka

  • February 26th, 2007

Islamic Artisans Constructed Exotic Nonrepeating Pattern 500 Years Before Mathematicians As early as the 15th century, elaborate symmetrical tile work on medieval Islamic buildings contained patterns straight out of modern math. Medieval Islamic artisans seem to have developed a procedure for creating jigsawlike mosaics that ultimately led them to an [ READ MORE ]

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