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Science Box
http://science.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=6321

Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields
How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.
Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields. wild. must read later.
energy-scale-100-orders-of-magnitud.jpg (JPEG Image, 1008x876 pixels)
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb127/drenka2busy/Nerdy%20stuff/energy-scale-100-orders-of-magnitud.jpg
The energy scale..kind of like circle of fifths
Scale representation of magnitude energy, usually in Earthquakes.
jiglibflash - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/jiglibflash/
物理エンジン
Play Perfect Balance, a free online game on Kongregate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ttursas/perfect-balance/
NOVA | Einstein's Big Idea | Relativity (Lightman Essay) | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/relativity/
This website contains a lot of good information, but it is not overwhelming, which makes it easy to read. Also, it has illustrations that help you to understand the theory of relativity. It is credible because it was written by a physicist and includes a photograph of him and personal information to confirm that he is an actual person.
This article is about realativity and the cosmos. It gives a background on the essense of gravity and the goes on to tell more about stars. I chose this site because I know that PBS is a trustworthy orgnaization.
this site seems to be very reliable. i chose it because it was one of the first links to come up as one of the most used by other students. it seems to be written by an expert as well.
Box2DJS - Physics Engine for JavaScript
http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/index2.html
API JavaScript para desenvolvimento de pequenas simulações de física newtoniana.
te an ob
Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/yes-virgina-there-is-a-magenta.ars
Magenta isn't a single color on the visible light spectrum: but it exists anyway. With diagrams.
Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta - Ars Technica
Physics Games - online physics-based games
http://www.physicsgames.net/
Gallery - The next generation of mirrors - Image 1 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16585-amazing-mirrors
I don't know how he did it, but it's pretty cool.
Six monster mirrors.
hersheyhslibrary » Theory of Relativity
http://hersheyhslibrary.wikispaces.com/Theory+of+Relativity
Hershey High School's Theory of Relativity Pathfinder.
pathfinder
This will help me with my physics project.
On this web site you'll see how it talks about relativity. No on was general relativity the first major new theory of gravity but it was the first one since Isaac Newton's more than 250 years earlier. Many of the predictions of general relativity have been quantitatively confirmed by experiment. It also talks about how Einstein and others applied general relativity to the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole.
Molecular Workbench
http://workbench.concord.org/
Software Run the Molecular Workbench to view activities or create your own. Curriculum Browse or search our database of curriculum materials for middle school through high school.
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Black hole confirmed in Milky Way
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7774287.stm
They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile. The black hole, said to be 27,000 light years from Earth, is four million times bigger than the Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal. Black holes are objects whose gravity is so great that nothing - including light - can escape them.
There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed. They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile.
We're being sucked into a black hole! Oh noes! Or radiating out from one. ;^)
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true&print=true
According to Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time." If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
"GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into 'grains', just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in."
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Superb article on Space
article from New Scientist about the world being a hologram
According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. (..) If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
A noise floor found in very small measurements means that our entire universe could be holographic. If true, this could have wide-ranging applications in space exploration, physics, computer science, philosophy, and other fields.
"The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
SuperMagnetMan Magnets
http://www.supermagnetman.net/
Is time an illusion? - physics-math - 19 January 2008 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726391.500-is-time-an-illusion.html?full=true
http://balldroppings.com/js/
http://balldroppings.com/js/
Neat!
Create music with balls and lines
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
Inductive reasoning at it's finest.
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry. The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where computers try to find regularities in massive datasets that are too big and complex for the human mind. (See Wired magazine's July 2008 cover story on "The End of Science.") "One of the biggest problems in science today is moving forward and finding the underlying principles in areas where there is lots and lots of data, but there's a theoretical gap. We don't know how things work," said Hod Lipson, the Cornell University computational researcher who co-wrote the program. "I think this is going to be an important tool." Condensing rules from raw data has long been considered the province of hu
“In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings…”
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/09/sustainable-energy-w.html
I just finished reading this book. It's one of the best analysis of energy use I was given to read. Hurray for raw number with cited sources!
Using a charming, educational style that teaches how to think about this kind of number, how to estimate with it, and what it means, MacKay explains these concepts beautifully, with accompanying charts that make them vivid and clear, and with exhaustive endnotes that are as interesting as the text they refer to (probably the best use of end-notes I've encountered in technical writing -- they act like hyperlinks, giving good background on the subjects that the reader wants to find out more about while allowing the main text to move forward without getting bogged down by details). sensible personal advice for things you can do to reduce your energy consumption -- especially identifying those few badly designed devices in your home whose idle power-draw really is punitive and replacing them (one Ikea lamp he cites draws nearly as much switched off as running, because of a transformer design that was one penny cheaper to manufacture than a more efficient one would have been).
PDF download on page
"This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy."
9 Apr 09 / cory Doctorow / David JC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air" may be the best technical book about the environment that I've ever read. In fact, if I have any complaint about this book, it's in how it's presented, with its austere cover and spartan title, I assumed it would be a somewhat dry look at energy, climate, conservation and so on. It's not. This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy
13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?full=true
via kottke.org
from New Scientist
北海道を落とすとどう跳ねるのか? - てっく煮ブログ
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nitoyon/20090415/hokkaido
持つとしたらこう,みたいな
岩手県は岩っぽい。
17 cool magnet tricks - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/magnettricks
Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/05/14/rules-for-time-travelers/
This is pretty awesome. It's a plain-English explanation of what rules should have to apply to any literary use of time travel, given what we know about space-time. "Time travel isn’t magic; it may or may not be allowed by the laws of physics — we don’t know them well enough to be sure — but we do know enough to say that if time travel were possible, certain rules would have to be obeyed." I was, of course, reading these rules and thinking of LOST, which, by my count, seems to play by all the rules expect maybe number three (but, in their defense, if you don't have some visual cue to the audience that time travel just happened, how would they ever know? I understand that it would happen in the real world, but you kind of need the flashing light as a storytelling device). Great read.
0. There are no paradoxes. 1. Traveling into the future is easy. 2. Traveling into the past is hard — but maybe not impossible. 3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space. 4. Things that travel together, age together. 5. Black holes are not time machines. 6. If something happened, it happened. 7. There is no meta-time. 8. You can’t travel back to before the time machine was built. 9. Unless you go to a parallel universe. 10. And even then, your old universe is still there.
Like Rule 0.
I love how smart everyone wants to act in the comments.
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Time | Cosmology | DISCOVER Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-time?=rssfeed
Play Splitter, a free online game on Kongregate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvgenyKarataev/splitter/
Play Splitte
Check out the physics engine for this game! Very lifelike!
Heavy Boots
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~det/phy2060/heavyboots.html
comment on the issue of fairness in teaching elementary physics
‘About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" ’
YouTube - Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - Stanford lectures
Good lesson in video form. Each 1:30 hours.
Aula em inglês
Theory of Relativity Lectures by Stanford on Youtube
Color and Reality | gmilburn.ca
http://www.gmilburn.ca/2009/06/19/color-and-reality/
Something to think about when you wonder if you “see” reality.
So we’re forced to realize a very interesting conclusion. The wavelength of a photon certainly reflects a color – but we cannot produce every color the human eye sees by a single photon of a specific wavelength. There is no such thing as a pink laser – two lasers must be mixed to produce that color. There are “real” colors (we call them pure spectral or monochromatic colors) and “unreal” colors that only exist in the brain.
While we consider this rather trivial today, at the time you’d be laughed out of the room if you suggested this somehow illustrated a fundamental property of light and color. The popular theory of the day was that color was a mixture of light and dark, and that prisms simply colored light. Color went from bright red (white light with the smallest amount of “dark” added) to dark blue (white light with the most amount of “dark” added before it turned black).
Jiggmin.com - Effing Hail
http://jiggmin.com/play_game.php?title=Effing+Hail
Game
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Nicely-designed flash game.
Here's some creative game design. You're an updraft, and you have to keep hailstones in the air while they grow big enough to cause more severe property damage.
Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos
http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy [Fine Structure Constant] [Schrödinger's cat] [Frequency]
video science curious
Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence - tech - 08 July 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.600-memristor-minds-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html?full=true
science technology
Memristors... The 6th missing basic electronic factor..
Bio computers
Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
Classic lectures on physics. Bill Gates funded. Now available for free with captions, notes, etc.
The Messenger Series - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=4%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C
Feynman lectures series at Microsoft's Project Tuva
Richard Feynman lectures
Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics - “Dangerous Knowledge”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5122859998068380459
Turned up on oursignal.com ...
The Technium: Was Moore's Law Inevitable?
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/07/was_moores_law.php
Moore's Law is one of the few Moira threads we've teased out in our short history in the technium. There must be others. Most of the technium's predetermined developments remain hidden, not yet uncovered, by tools not yet invented. But we've learned to look for them. Searching, we can see similar laws peeking out now. These "laws" are reflexes of the technium that kick in regardless of the social climate. They too will spawn progress, and inspire new powers and new desires as they unroll in ordered sequence. Perhaps these self-governing dynamics will appear in genetics, or in pharmaceuticals, or in cognition. Once a dynamic like Moore's Law is launched and made visible, the fuels of finance, competition, and markets will push the law to its limits and keep it riding along that curve until it has consumed its physical potential.
Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts? | Subatomic Particles | DISCOVER Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/13-is-quantum-mechanics-controlling-your-thoughts
Light and matter united
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.08/99-hau.html
Light can be stopped and restarted?
i don't understand how cooling Na helps stop light - or what the "signature" encoded in the light is ...
Harvard brainiac Lene Hau uses Bose-Einstein condensates to "freeze" light, stopping it and effectively storing it as matter.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.harvard.edu%2Fgazette%2F2007%2F02.08%2F99-hau.html
Red Remover :: Silvergames.com
http://www.silvergames.com/game/red-remover/
Flash physics game. Remove the red blocks without letting the green ones fall off screen.
Kids might enjoy this physics based puzzle game.
Visualizing up to ten dimensions - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/18/visualizing-up-to-te.html
Bowloftoast sez, "This is a short animation that takes the viewer through a progressive description of all (and all possible) dimensions, up to and including the 10th. It is an elegant introduction to the fundamentals of string theory and a mind-blowing toe-dip into the pool of the metaphysical."
Oliver's simple fluid dynamics simulator
http://nerget.com/fluidSim/
Bacon: the Other White Heat | Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/bacon
Genius
bacon welders
Thanks EMone
@ryanbaldwin that was just amazing! Breakfast will never be the same again! [via tonyarkles] http://tr.im/iVsr [from http://twitter.com/wafflessh/statuses/1530175526]
Amazing. Prosciutto as a thermal lance.
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself | Cosmology | DISCOVER Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/01-the-biocentric-universe-life-creates-time-space-cosmos
A great article. Every thing is perception. i beleive in it
Review of Biocentrism in the Discover magazine
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters
http://trafficwaves.org/
Traffic jams are sometimes caused by drivers' competitive behavior. In certain situations the actions of a single driver can lessen traffic congestion or even erase a traffic jam completely.
Traffic jams are sometimes caused by drivers' competitive behavior. In certain situations the actions of a single driver can lessen traffic congestion or even erase a traffic jam completely.
Beyond space and time: Fractals, hyperspace and more - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/beyond-space-and-time
multiple dimensions 10D
The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a second thought. Time, the fourth dimension, gets a little trickier. But it's when we start to explore worlds that embody more – or indeed fewer – dimensions that things get really tough.
like the ten dimensions video...but words!
Thinking about dimensions other than the three we're used to can rattle one's mind. That's why it's usually left to stoned conversationalists and theoretical physicists. To help the rest of us navigate flatland, fractal landscapes, and hyperspace, New Scientist put together a concise and fun tour titled "Beyond Space and Time."
We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a second thought. Time, the fourth dimension, gets a little trickier. But it's when we start to explore worlds that embody more – or indeed fewer – dimensions that things get really tough.
Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
http://www.physorg.com/news158928941.html
Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal bias or simply "wishful thinking." This paradoxical human behavior has resisted explanation by classical decision theory for over a decade. But now, scientists have shown that a quantum probability model can provide a simple explanation for human decision-making - and may eventually help explain the success of human cognition overall.
Need to read more carefully; till then, count me as skeptical
LOL. The first few sentences made me think of Busemeyer, even before he was mentioned.
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? - Coding the Wheel
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/the-coin-flip-a-fundamentally-unfair-proposition
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?
Single molecule, one million times smaller than a grain of sand, pictured for first time | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209726/Single-molecule-million-times-smaller-grain-sand-pictured-time.html
wow
Thought you'd be interested in this photo. Fred Page
13 more things that don't make sense - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things
Alexandre Gomes | An introduction to game physics with Chipmunk
http://www.alexandre-gomes.com/articles/chipmunk
An introduction to game physics with Chipmunk. Learn about Chipmunk Physics Engine and how to start developing games for the iPhone and other platforms.
YouTube - 1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg
bullet instant liquification is crazy
1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts
Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit.
@invisiblea: "Video of bullets hitting things shot at 1million fps http://bit.ly/1AO4Ak Amazing" (from http://twitter.com/invisiblea/status/4758274906)
Other version of the video has a better soundtrack Be sure to see my other videos of more slow motion bullet impacts! Slow Motion video of bullet impacts mad...
No seriously this is awesome.
Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/
Why crazy clouds form the way they do.
Nubes extrañas y sus principios físicos subyacentes
got your head in the clouds http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/ [from http://twitter.com/wild_gift/statuses/4502481301]
NOVA | Interactives Archive | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/
RT @NMHS_Principal: Hotscience interactive activities from NOVA http://bit.ly/2VlZuv Cool stuff! [from http://twitter.com/MrTRice_Science/statuses/4978995851]
nova interactives archive
The Online Portfolio of Corey O'Neil
http://www.coreyoneil.com/portfolio/index.php?project=5
Fix Your Timestep! « Gaffer on Games
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/
Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering : Gustavo Duarte
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/richard-feynman-challenger-disaster-software-engineering
argues that the process of requirements elicitation as project definition are secondary to the process of creation,testing and learning about nature.
What I cannot create I do not understand. --- Learn how to solve every problem that have been solved. --------- 1) The Space Shuttle Main Engine... many different kinds of flaws and difficulties have turned up. Because, unfortunately, it was built in the top-down manner, they are difficult to find and fix. 2) avionics system, which was done by a different group at NASA: The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.
Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html
C'est toujours impressionnant.
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs from the Boston Globe
Project GRE²AT: Photo Tour
http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
scientific road trip with kids, amazing, time dilation, Project GRE²AT: Photo Tour http://bit.ly/Iv2Bd [from http://twitter.com/meika/statuses/2158854078]
"Does gravity really alter time and can this weird phenomenon be detected with a family road trip experiment?" -- via Jed Parsons
"we were able to detect and measure the effects of relativistic time dilation compared to atomic clocks we left at home." [via kenglass]
n September 2005 (for the 50th anniversary of the atomic clock and 100th anniversary of the theory of relativity) we took several cesium clocks on a road trip to Mt Rainier; a family science experiment unlike anything you've seen before. By keeping the clocks at altitude for a weekend we were able to detect and measure the effects of relativistic time dilation compared to atomic clocks we left at home. The amazing thing is that the experiment worked! The predicted and measured effect was just over 20 nanoseconds.
Experimentally proving relativity by taking atomic clocks up higher in elevation (to increase speed due to Earth's spin being different). A family vacation with three kids.
George Smoot on the design of the universe | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html
TED Talks At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got built this way.
xkcd - A Webcomic - Depth
http://xkcd.com/485/
Best yet!
Chromoscope
http://www.chromoscope.net/
Beautiful multi-band images of the Milky Way
for video giving instructions, see http://blog.chromoscope.net/2009/12/what-is-the-chromoscope/
שבי להחלב באורכי גל שונים
The Physics of Space Battles - Space battle - Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5426453/the-physics-of-space-battles
"Another is that combat in orbit would be very different from combat in "deep space," which is what you probably think of as how space combat should be – where a spacecraft thrusts one way, and then keeps going that way forever. No, around a planet, the tactical advantage in a battle would be determined by orbit dynamics: which ship is in a lower (and faster) orbit than which; who has a circular orbit and who has gone for an ellipse; relative rendezvous trajectories that look like winding spirals rather than straight lines."
First, let me point out something that Ender's Game got right and something it got wrong. What it got right is the essentially three-dimensional nature of space combat, and how that would be fundamentally different from land, sea, and air combat. In principle, yes, your enemy could come at you from any direction at all. In practice, though, the Buggers are going to do no such thing. At least, not until someone invents an FTL drive, and we can actually pop our battle fleets into existence anywhere near our enemies. The marauding space fleets are going to be governed by orbit dynamics – not just of their own ships in orbit around planets and suns, but those planets' orbits. For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we'll be able to tell exactly what trajectories our enemies could take between planets: the launch window.
The Physics of Space Battles
I hope someone's working on the simulation.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Single molecule's stunning image
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8225491.stm
whoa dude
RT @justinvincent Single molecule's stunning image http://bit.ly/rcsbq [from http://twitter.com/CollinVanUden/statuses/3614397312]
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers.
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques - but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. Understanding structure on this scale could help in the design of many things on the molecular scale, particularly electronics or even drugs. The IBM researchers report their findings in the journal Science.
BibliOdyssey: Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/nuclear-reactor-wall-charts.html
Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts
Cutaway illustrations of Nuclear Power Reactors. Linked via John Nack at Adobe.
Economist.com
http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=13226725
ハーディのパラドクス cf.http://www.thevarsity.ca/article/18481-u-of-t-scientists-prove/論文http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/11/3/033011/njp9_3_033011.html
Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the fundamental truth that it is impossible to know everything about the world and, in fact, whether it really exists at all when it is not being observed. Now two groups of physicists, working independently, have demonstrated that nature is indeed real when unobserved. When no one is peeking, however, it acts in a really odd way.
Yet more proof that the stuff down at a quantum level makes no sense when thought about using metaphors derived at a human level.
http://xkcd.com/681_large/
http://xkcd.com/681_large
Check out the little bloke on Neptune...
Cool graphic comparing gravity wells of solar system.
Welcome to 100 Hours of Astronomy
http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/
2009 internat yr of astronomy
sterrenkunde Uit meer met media
Seven things that don't make sense about gravity - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/seven-things-that-dont-make-sense-about-gravity
Gravity keeps our feet on the ground and our planet circling the sun, but we know remarkably little about it. New Scientist investigates the force's greatest mysteries.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Magnetic electricity' discovered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8307804.stm
monopoles gather to form a "magnetic current" like electricity. The phenomenon, dubbed "magnetricity", could be used in magnetic storage or in computing. Magnetic monopoles were first predicted to exist over a century ago, as a perfect analogue to electric charges. Although there are protons and electrons with net positive and negative electric charges, there were no particles in existence which carry magnetic charges. Rather, every magnet has a "north" and "south" pole. //"particles" which carry an overall magnetic charge. But they exist only in the spin ice crystals.
Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice.
Apparently magnets with only one pole exist
"Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones."
'Magnetic electricity' discovered
Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones.
nanotechnology has helped discover magnetricity, particles that carry magnetic charges
Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html
HOLY SHIT SCOTTY WAS HERE
check this out
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion
Turning the Pages - History of Science - The Royal Society
http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
3D virtual browsing. Interface it a bit clunky, but I heart me some virtual books.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon. Launch Turning the Pages™ 2.0 * Full 3D version - high end, full functionality. (Need help?) * Silverlight version - if you cannot use the 3D version, try this one. (Need help?) * Accessible version - if you're still having difficulty, try this version. (Need help?) The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts. William Stukeley's Life of Newton Thomas Paine's iron bridge design Woolsthorpe Paine letter The Constitutions of Carolina Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Foot Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible.
Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon.
Teleportation Milestone Achieved | LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090123-teleportation-atoms.html
Real World Science News
1メートル離れた原子同士でテレポーテーションの実験が成功した件
"if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understands quantum mechanics." Or sometimes he is cited thusly: "I think I can safely say that nobody understand quantum mechanics."
Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
http://www.gorgorat.com/#35
so this is one of my FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME!! and now lots of the stories are up right here :D :D :D
From "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", the kind of advice that saves you a lifetime of figuring it out by yourself
hey're not going to give you a goddamn thing; I'm not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on. I learned it till it was automatic.
The Scale of the Universe
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347
escala del universo
A escala do universo da menor particula ao tamanho do universo
Amazing flash animation where you choose the scale with a slider and it zooms from quantum foam to the entire universe. Spectacular. [via Math Hombre blog]
Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! Learn the size of the Pillars of Creation and marvel at the minuscule scale of a neutrino! ARROW KEYS! ARROW KEYS! You can use arrow keys if the scroll bar is too sensitive. Thank you so much for your high ratings and rave reviews!
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html
Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.
h-hoooooly shit??? (This is either awesome or going to kill a bunch of people before they go, Oh, hidden health risks. BUT MAN IF THIS ARTICLE WERE RIGHT THIS'D SO SO INCREDIBLE, and even with the health risks, there are loads of things you could use it for anyway. *_*
"Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products." Sounds too good to be true.
Can fractals make sense of the quantum world? - physics-math - 30 March 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.600-can-fractals-make-sense-of-the-quantum-world.html?full=true
Measurement of quantum phenomena could be affected by fractal nature of the object being measured.
My Solar System 2.02
http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system_en.html
Holy crap! Awesome.
Orbital simulation fun for the whole family.
Andrew Hoyer | Cloth Simulation
http://www.andrew-hoyer.com/experiments/cloth
http://www.andrew-hoyer.com/exp_src/cloth_JS/cloth.js - code is here
is simulation. A lot of the concepts discussed by Thomas Jacobse
What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/
Sean Carroll
A cool look at why we view the world we do and why certain actions can't be reversed.
Bernard d'Espagnat: What we call 'reality' is just a state of mind | Science | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/17/templeton-quantum-entanglement
Bernard d'Espagnat: What we call 'reality' is just a state of mind http://hub.tm/dkmur
Quantum reality
【人工知能】物理エンジンで人工生命つくって学習させた‐ニコニコ動画(ββ)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6392515
こういうのを学生時やりたかった・・
e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/sc_afp/sciencephysicseinstein_081120235605
For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."
"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.
According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent? The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.
YouTube - The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 1 of 8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58
081209
ElectroMagneticSpectrum1800.jpg (JPEG Image, 2350x1600 pixels)
http://www.copperalliance.net/IndexPageGraphics/ElectroMagneticSpectrum1800.jpg
Electromagnetic spectrum with a lot of histories!!
the electromagnetic spectrum, a radial image with a lot of information
Interactive Physics - Home
http://www.design-simulation.com/IP/
Abstruse Goose » True Things
http://abstrusegoose.com/73
"There are many things I know are true... ... but don't really believe"
Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=big-bang-or-big-bounce
Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce—an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? - space - 10 December 2008 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026861.500-did-our-cosmos-exist-before-the-big-bang.html?full=true
LQC is in fact the first tangible application of another theory called loop quantum gravity, which cunningly combines Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics. Theories like this work out what happens when microscopic volumes experience an extreme gravitational force, as happened near the big bang, for example. Ashtekar rewrote the equations of general relativity in a quantum-mechanical framework. ABHAY ASHTEKAR saw the universe bounce back while watching a simulation of the universe rewind towards the big bang. Mostly the universe behaved as expected, becoming smaller and denser as the galaxies converged. But then, instead of reaching the big bang "singularity", the universe bounced and started expanding again. The theory that the recycled universe was based on, called loop quantum cosmology (LQC), had managed to illuminate the very birth of the universe - something even Einstein's general theory of relativity fails to do.
"Ashtekar later used this framework to show that the fabric of space-time is woven from loops of gravitational field lines."
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang
Loop Quantum Cosmology posits a different beginning to the universe.
The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space
http://www.astronomybuff.com/the-big-bang-was-an-explosion-of-space-not-in-space/
At no point was matter spewing forth from anything. Space and time itself was being created first. Ordinary matter (atoms, molecules etc) was created out of tiny imbalances of energy left over from the inflationary period.
The Big Bang was not an explosion of matter into space, rather it was an explosion of space ITSELF, and since space and time are interconnected, we really have to say it was an explosion of space AND time, or space-time.
STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING-How-build-time-machine.html
Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact. He's a smart man. Take his advice and don't fuck with aliens
"He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”"
Hubble: Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled
http://gizmodo.com/5049896/hubble-finds-unidentified-object-in-space
Hubble finds unidentified object in space. Nerds all over say "cooooool" http://bit.ly/d6k7V6
Hubble: Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled
The headline and story made me think of Bruce Willis in Armageddon when he says, "You're NASA, you've always got a backup plan. You've probably got a team somewhere else thinking up ideas" because it's surprising that they can't even guess as to what this is.
[I]n a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere.
Spooky.
Un pixel sin explicación en una imagen enviada por el Hubble. Una fuente de luz que apareció de repente y unos días después despareció.
This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble in a paper published last week
DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator) on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/3635423
Looks pretty responsive and very fun.
multi touch table met echte physics werking
Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law
From the November 2008 Scientific American Magazine | 62 comments Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics? In seeming defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, nature is filled with examples of order emerging from chaos. A new theoretical framework resolves the apparent paradox By J. Miguel Rubí
Scientific American: In seeming defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, nature is filled with examples of order emerging from chaos. A new theoretical framework resolves the apparent paradox
discussion topic, allow students to discuss key points of article, provide them with selected passages. This is a good way to see if they understand as they will have to discuss how nature does and doesn't obey the laws of thermodynamics.
Podstawy Fizyki
http://www.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~kakol/efizyka/index0.htm
6 Free Websites for Learning and Teaching Science
http://mashable.com/2010/05/11/science-websites/
Science education sites
Resolving the iPhone resolution | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/resolving-the-iphone-resolution/
Is the new iPhone resolution so high that the human eye cannot detect the pixels?
"...at 12 inches from the eye, Jobs claims, the pixels on the new iPhone are so small that they exceed your eye’s ability to detect them."
High Scalability - High Scalability - How will memristors change everything?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/5/how-will-memristors-change-everything.html
Bureau 42 | Summer School 2010.1: Quantum Physics
http://www.bureau42.com/view/6841/summer-school-2010-1-quantum-physics
The onset of summer is no excuse to stop learning. In this year’s session, we will address Quantum Physics. Be here each Monday morning through July and August for a new lesson in the nine part series, covering graduate level physics concepts with grade school math, or no math at all.
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/13457383
This is a new Multiphysics simulation by Lagoa Technologies Inc.
The Future of Physics - Visualizing and Modeling Materials http://is.gd/dAb5J #physics via @anselm
物理シミュレーション。
This is a new Multiphysics simulation by Lagoa Technologies Inc
animação
If the Earth Stood Still
http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html
"Modeling the absence of centrifugal force"
What would happen to our oceans if the Earth stopped spinning ? http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html
What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning?
The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the capabilities of GIS to model the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning? ArcGIS was used to perform complex raster analysis and volumetric computations and generate maps that visualize these results. the world as we know it earth's ellipsoid
If the earth's gravity alone was responsible for creating a new geography, the huge bulge of oceanic water—which is now about 8 km high at the equator—would migrate to where a stationary earth's gravity would be the strongest. This bulge is attributed to the centrifugal effect of earth's spinning with a linear speed of 1,667 km/hour at the equator. The existing equatorial water bulge also inflates the ellipsoidal shape of the globe itself.