Physics news

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:10 pm

Neutron Physics Instrument May Unlock Mysteries Of Universe

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sep. 16, 2004 — Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Ridge.

Proving That Shape-Shifting Robots Can Get A Move On

ARLINGTON, Va. -- It started with tennis balls. As a former collegiate tennis player, Daniela Rus habitually rolls two tennis balls around in her hand as she paces her office. As a robotics researcher at Dartmouth College, she wondered why the tennis balls shouldn’t be able to roll themselves around.

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Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:27 am

ORNL Microscope Pushes Back Barrier Of 'How Small'

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2004 -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, using a state-of-the-art microscope and new computerized imaging technology, have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see--to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom. ORNL, a Department of Energy national laboratory, also held the previous record, at 0.7 angstrom.

(It's not the size that matters, it's; okay, it's the size.)

Scientists Gain Glimpse Of Bizarre Matter In A Neutron Star

Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.

(Heavy, man, heavy.)

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Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:22 pm

Nobel Prize In Physics Honors 'Colorful' Discovery In The World Of Quarks

What are the smallest building blocks in Nature? How do these particles build up everything we see around us? What forces act in Nature and how do they actually function?

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Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:44 pm

And here I just thought QUARKS was just a bar on DEEP SPACE NINE

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:39 pm

Nah - that Quark retired from there, got a makeover, took a job as principal at Sunnydale High, then got et by a big snake at graduation.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:53 am

Henry J wrote:Nah - that Quark retired from there, got a makeover, took a job as principal at Sunnydale High, then got et by a big snake at graduation.

Very good......that's worth a few points!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:35 am

Also, Quark, uh, Snyder, should never have trusted that Mayor guy - after all, Wilkins was a politici... er, a demon.

Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:01 pm

Thinking of Quark and/or Snyder, reminds me of that scene where they showed him in silhouette - Snyder's ears looked almost as big as Quark's.

And from the look on Buffy's face, I think she was trying to figure out if that was just a person with large ears, or a demon of some kind. Well, in this case maybe it was a little of both.

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:41 am

Henry J wrote:Thinking of Quark and/or Snyder, reminds me of that scene where they showed him in silhouette - Snyder's ears looked almost as big as Quark's.
And from the look on Buffy's face, I think she was trying to figure out if that was just a person with large ears, or a demon of some kind. Well, in this case maybe it was a little of both.

Henry

Hmmm......so, this was a 'crossover'?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:06 pm

The CERN LHC: A Black Hole Factory?

The Large Hadronic Collider (LHC), which is to be the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, is currently being constructed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:48 am

As The World Turns, It Drags Space And Time

An international team of NASA and university researchers has found direct evidence confirming earlier findings that the Earth is dragging space and time around itself as it rotates.

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Henry

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:10 am

Physicists Transfer Information Between Matter And Light; Advancing Quantum Communications

A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon.

I guess one could say they're making a Quantum Leap, huh?
(And yes, I did have to say that.

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Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 am

I guess one could say they're making a Quantum Leap, huh?
(And yes, I did have to say that. )

Well, somebody had to, I guess.......

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:13 am

Well, yeah!

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:07 pm

Henry J wrote:Well, yeah!