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Category: ResearchBlogging
The big physics-y news story of the moment is the trapping of antihydrogen by the ALPHA collaboration at CERN. The article itself is paywalled, because this is Nature, but one of the press offices at one of the institutions involved...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 3:48 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
As mentioned in yesterday's post on ion trapping, a month or so back Dave Wineland's group at NIST published a paper in Science on using ultra-precise atomic clocks to measure relativistic effects. If you don't have a subscription to Science,...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
One of the many physics stories I haven't had time to blog about recently is the demonstration of relativistic time effects using atomic clocks. I did mention a DAMOP talk about the experiment, but the actual paper was published in...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:59 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Regular commenter onymous left a comment to my review of Warped Passages that struck me as a little odd: The extended analogy between the renormalization group and a bureaucracy convinced me that she was trying way too hard to make...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:26 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Not long ago, a new preprint on the fine structure constant got a bunch of press, nicely summed up by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker last week. I meant to say something about this last week, but what with it...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:34 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
A fairly straightforward question: quantum physicists divide the world into two categories of things, fermions and bosons. What's your favorite object having integer spin? What's your favorite boson?online survey Superpositions of answers, while allowed in properly symmetrized wavefunctions, are not...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:59 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
What would happen in a world where the speed of light was not the same for all observers, but time was?
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:41 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Over at Confused at a Higher Level, Melissa offers an alphabetical list of essential supplies for a condensed matter experimentalist at a small college. This is a fun idea for back-to-school time, so I'll steal it, and offer the following...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:18 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Last week, John Baez posted a report on a seminar by Dzimitry Matsukevich on ion trap quantum information issues. In the middle of this, he writes: Once our molecular ions are cold, how can we get them into specific desired...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:49 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Condensed Matter
The Joerg Heber post that provided one of the two papers for yesterday's Hanbury Brown Twiss-travaganza also included a write-up of a new paper in Nature on Mott insulators, which was also written up in Physics World. Most of the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:23 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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