Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5633|London, England
I was actually looking for Fermi's book on Thermo to read over the weekend.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
If you haven't read Feynman's QED, you must.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5633|London, England

Spark wrote:

If you haven't read Feynman's QED, you must.
I'll transfer it over to the kindle as well
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
Hell, get as much of Feynman's popular work as you can (or even his semi-popular work ie. his series of lectures on physics). One of the truly greatest minds of the 20th century - and given his competition, that's saying something.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
presidentsheep
Back to the Fuhrer
+208|6236|Places 'n such
Surely you're joking and what do you care are easily two of my favourite books.
His lectures on physics saved me with thermodynamics to.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
Cheeky_Ninja06
Member
+52|7007|Cambridge, England
A thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time.

The find, described in Astrophysical Journal Letters, confirms theoretical work that predicted the Earth's magnetic field could trap antimatter.

The team says a small number of antiprotons lie between the Van Allen belts of trapped "normal" matter.

The researchers say there may be enough to implement a scheme using antimatter to fuel future spacecraft.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14405122
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … witterfeed

ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
Adds fuel to an already quite popular fire.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
I made a mistake in another thread, which I found today (since I'm now studying general relativity for-real - and Christ almighty what a mindbogglingly mathematically complex and dense theory it is). Observations in the last decade have suggested a cosmological constant which is positive - not negative (as I said).
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,816|6381|eXtreme to the maX

Spark wrote:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
Adds fuel to an already quite popular fire.
Which is wrong because God did it.
Fuck Israel
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6686|'Murka

Dilbert_X wrote:

Spark wrote:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
Adds fuel to an already quite popular fire.
Which is wrong because God did it.
Maybe He did...with meteorites.

cwutididthar
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … witterfeed

Why the Human Heart Can't Regenerate Itself

ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2011) — Stem cell researchers at UCLA have uncovered for the first time why adult human cardiac myocytes have lost their ability to proliferate, perhaps explaining why the human heart has little regenerative capacity.

The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a patient's own cardiac myocytes within the heart itself to create new muscle to repair damage, said Dr. Robb MacLellan, a researcher with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA and senior author of the study.
If we were able to flick that switch back on then the health benefits would be truly staggering.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
M.O.A.B
'Light 'em up!'
+1,220|6497|Escea

FEOS wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Spark wrote:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808220659.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


Adds fuel to an already quite popular fire.
Which is wrong because God did it.
Maybe He did...with meteorites.

cwutididthar
God's meatballs.
menzo
̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#
+616|6721|Amsterdam‫
https://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5082/perseidmeteorshower2011.jpg

awsm to see a meteor from the other side
https://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee37/menzo2003/fredbf2.png
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
an observation

having to calculate christoffel symbols (for the riemann curvature tensor) by hand must be one of the most boring, tedious things ever devised. ugh.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6875|132 and Bush

Is Brian Cox the new UK version of Carl Sagan?

.... in the UK, students taking A-level math and science has gone way up. There’s been a 40% jump in math, and 20% each in physics and chemistry over the past 5 years.

Why? No doubt it’s at least partly because employers need people highly-trained in sciences — our new technology won’t invent itself, folks (the T-1000 notwithstanding).

But the UK newspaper The Guardian (and the BBC as well), reporting on this, wonders if perhaps there is one man behind this: Brian Cox.

Brian is a scientist, a speaker, a science popularizer, and has hosted several TV shows, including the wildly popular "Wonders of the Solar System" and "Wonders of the Universe". Brian used to be in a rock band, and has the sort of Beatles-esque look, charm, and talent that makes his work very compelling.

Full disclosure: Brian and his wife, Gia, are friends of mine. I’ve done a few things with Brian in the past (a podcast taped at the Large Hadron Collider, for example — that picture here is the two of us deep inside the LHC — and a fun bit on NASA’s Deep Impact mission for a BBC show). But that’s not why I’m supporting him here; in fact, it’s the reverse: I like him because he’s a good guy doing good work.

It’s not hard to see why The Guardian — and the people interviewed in that article — might say Brian is behind this recent jump in sciencophilia. His impact on the culture of science in the UK is both wide and deep. It’s probably not possible to know the exact influence he’s had, but when you look at how many people were drawn into science by Carl Sagan 30 years ago, it’s not out of the question that Brian really has taken up that mantle. As have many others, as I’m sure my Hive Overmind Discover Magazine co-blogger and science writer Carl Zimmer would agree, too.

There are times I despair for my own country because of the copious and pernicious attacks on science, but if what The Guardian says is true, it means science popularization may be stemming that tide, or at least holding it back a bit. Making science understandable, comprehensible, even fun, is having a more profound and very real impact on individuals. It may even be inspiring an interest in math and science, and causing people to study these fields further.

And that, my friends, is exactly the whole point.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
Hope so. Men like Cox, Sagan, Feynman before him, are truly precious.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6875|132 and Bush

Could probably through Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson in there as well. .. although I think Sagan, Cox, and Hawking are in their own class as "populaizers".
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
Feynman > all.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6875|132 and Bush

Hard to say.. depends really. Hubble, Darwin, Einstein? ..lol
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
Ah I meant as science communicators. Einstein was also special. Hubble had too much of an ego. Darwin was pretty good. Newton was hilariously bad, although not quite Hutton-bad. Hardly rare, though... a mid-19th century Encyclopaedia Britannica article on electrodynamics was invariably written by, say, James Clerk Maxwell (also a truly, truly brilliant man) for James Clerk Maxwell.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Cheeky_Ninja06
Member
+52|7007|Cambridge, England
The ranges left after these results suggest that the Higgs is either quite a light particle, below about 145 GeV, or a heavy one, above 466 GeV. A couple of islands in the middle, around 250 GeV, have not been fully excluded yet.

According to Cern, Atlas and CMS have excluded the existence of a Higgs over most of the mass region 145 to 466 GeV with 95% certainty.

For the researchers at the LHC, this is now the endgame in their search for the Higgs. But it is a search that could still take many months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14596367
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
would be fun if they didn't find it. standard model is too perfect in many ways, needs a good kick.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
presidentsheep
Back to the Fuhrer
+208|6236|Places 'n such
Turns out it was just someone dropping some sandwich crumbs in there...
For popularising science, Feynman>anyone I can think of. Including Sagan.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6875|132 and Bush

presidentsheep wrote:

Feynman>anyone I can think of. Including Sagan.
No not really. Sagan did much more to bring Science to the masses. Books, movies, the most watched Science series of all time. The cosmos was about much more than one area of Science (astronomy). It went over the entire history of Science.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6949|Canberra, AUS
If anyone here has done GR, could they point me the quickest way to working out the standard purely-covariant Riemann curvature tensor? This is really boring me to tears.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman

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