Space time is not only bent, it is bending! “Gravitational waves may have been discovered!!” Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State university, The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘physics’
May 5th, 2012 - 3:25 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkeley Blog: How Science Works
Trusting your fellow scientist Anna Goldstein, chemistry grad student | 3/6/12 In my last post, I told you that Berkeley Physics professor Richard Muller is the go-to guy for proof of anthropogenic climate change. Maybe that strikes you as odd. Why would I look to a physicist for information about o[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
The Universe Is Getting Stranger
Anti-matter! In space!, from Pharygula Science fiction dreams may come true: a small, thin band of stable anti-matter has been discovered near Earth. It was predicted theoretically, but now emissions from the annihilation of these particles has been observed. The existence of a significant flux of a[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
One last world shaking discovery from Fermilab: The God Particle?
From Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it. … The Higgs Boson? “Nobody knows what this is, if it is real, it would be the most significant dis[...]