Physics

Quantum chaos unveiled?

brightsurf.com     6 hrs ago   1 related          

A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern theory of quantum mechanics.                    

CERN to start up super-accelerator on September 10 (AFP)

yahoo.com     4 hrs ago   10 related          

GENEVA (AFP) - European particle physics laboratory CERN said Thursday it will start up its massive particle accelerator on September 10 hoping that it could throw light on the origins of the universe. The so-called Large...                    

Europe’s Large Hadron Collider tests the bounds of physics – and budgets

csmonitor.com     8 hrs ago   4 related          

If all goes well, this weekend a handful of protons will make their first, tentative entrance into the main rings of the world’s most powerful time machine. It’s an important step toward the full-scale start-up of the Large...                    

Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified

newsvine.com     5 hrs ago          

In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, together with Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, spelled out how to exploit a quantum quirk to accomplish a...                    

Project Scientist to Speak on NASA's Messenger Mission

redorbit.com     4 hrs ago          

Posted on: Thursday, 7 August 2008, 12:05 CDT HAMPTON, Va., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although Mercury is the smallest planet, NASA has much to discover on the world nearest the sun. Ralph McNutt, a physicist at the...                    

Russian intellectuals: The hand that feeds them

economist.com     8 hrs ago          

Individual voices are brave. But Russia's intelligentsia, which could be much freer than in the bad old days, is still mealy-mouthedTHEY did not like each other much, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Russia's liberal intelligentsia....                    

Fraunhofer-based photovoltaic expert joins SEMI board

greensupplyline.com     14 hrs ago          

LONDON — Professor Eicke Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and a professor of physics and applied sciences at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany, has joined the SEMI...                    

Meta-materials Mimic Ice And Illuminate Why Water-ice Doesn't Fully Conform To Third Law Of...

sciencedaily.com     17 hrs ago          

Researchers are using meta-materials, which mimic the behavior of ice, but are created out of completely different substances, to and figure out why water ice doesn't completely conform to the Third Law of Thermodynamics.                    

Scientists create world's thinnest, leak-proof balloon

newstrackindia.com     12 hrs ago          

Washington, August 7 (ANI): Using a single layer of carbon, just one atom thick, New York-based researchers have created the world's thinnest balloon. Cornel University researchers, who are behind this work, say that the fabric...                    

I Love My Job [Uncertain Principles]

scienceblogs.com     yesterday   1 related          

I'm very happy to be an academic scientist. And I'm not alone: a study presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association finds that academic scientists -- in the natural and social sciences --...                    

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