- Superfluids, BECs And Bosenovas: The Ultimate Experiment
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In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases, we find the fourth state of matter, the plasmas of lightning to the aurora borealis and fluorescent tubes at the office. Further out, minor phenomena becomes the big event in space, our shining stars are ...
Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:39pm - 0 attachments
- On The Origin Of Physical Dynamics And The Reason Of Existence Of Special Relativity
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... Physical fields, such as the gravitation field, the electrostatic field or the magnetostatic field, cover the whole Hilbert space ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Feb 1 2011 - 11:10am - 0 attachments
- Fourth State Of Matter Gets Beautiful
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Can plasma be beautiful? Surely, anything can, but physicists are luckier than most because when they probe the mysteries of plasma, the fourth state of matter, they often discover phenomena of striking beauty. Plasmas support a large variety ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2010 - 12:49pm - 0 attachments
- A Medieval Practice To Be Restored?
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... encounters two sets of units for all sorts of things, the electrostatic units ( esu ) and the electromagnetic units ( emu ). (I’ve ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Nov 15 2010 - 2:09pm - 0 attachments
- Extreme Amateur Science: Building the Sun in your Basement
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... Update, July 25, 2010... Tip Sheet for Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Investigators, by Tom Ligon [ DOWNLOAD ...
Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 25 2010 - 8:04pm - 0 attachments
- Quantum field theory in curved space time, quantum gravity....They are one and the same.
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Robert Wald has formulated QFT in curved space time in terms of it's algebra of observables on a manifold. In doing so he has, perhaps unintentionally, provided framework in which very different theories of quantum gravity look very similar. ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 9 2009 - 8:15pm - 0 attachments
- Guest Post: Carl Brannen, "Position, Spin, And The Particle Generations"
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Carl Brannen is well known to the regulars of this blog. He is an independent researcher and my favourite non-professional theorist, because he gives me the hope that brilliant minds, who were diverted from the natural path of doing basic research ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 10 2009 - 10:14am - 0 attachments
- ICARUS Up And Running, Rubbia Announces
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... a volume lined with vertical planes of wires at high electrostatic potential on both sides. Electrons created by ionizing tracks ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 27 2010 - 9:33pm - 0 attachments
- New Luminosity Record At The Tevatron
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This is to inform you of the new luminosity record set today by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. The machine has been working excellently, improving its performance as the machinists found ways to obtain higher stacks of antiprotons, reducing inefficien ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 17 2010 - 11:22pm - 0 attachments
- Van de, Van der ...?
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... trip to DESY was the proper name for a certain type of electrostatic generator[1]. Like many Brits, I had somehow got it into my ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 26 2010 - 1:36pm - 0 attachments
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