So our statistical mechanics professor is one of those of the philosophy that physics should be communicated in clear, plain language with as little math as actually needed. (He is also a math wizard or something, but that's beside the point.) Ten percent of our grade comes from weekly "previews" in which we do a little forward reading and ( Read more... )

You get tired of waiting for Frodo to drop the One Ring into Mount Doom ( Read more... )

From what I can see, the blogosphere is abuzz. (I'm a few days off, yes.) The science programs and blogs have been abuzz for quite a while longer, though.
So, linkage from various web trawls. (Most of these pages have yet more links.)

The Large Hadron Collider (at CERN):
LHC homepage (a little intimidating)
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC- ( Read more... )

Swish, sshh, sshhsshh. The water spiraled into a silent, hypnotic swirl, receding back down the walls of the glass bottle as the Doctor passed it to Rose. Shh, shh, she shook it from side to side; the water crept back up again.

"Not half as much fun as particle accelerators," said the Doctor, watching Rose spin the bottle upside down and every which ( Read more... )

First draft, unedited, as always. G/Nothing to worry about but fluff and the wonderous universe.
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Flaming above, even the shimmering iridescence of the aurora only highlighted the blossoming point of light- the gem of the newly crowned sky. Young, yet older than civilization itself, it shone fiercely unmindful of the crowd of admirers it had ( Read more... )