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The latest edition of the Michigan Today online newsletter, which I receive as a UM alumnus, features a six-minute video of physics professor Tim McKay explaining the evidence for an expanding...
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Here are a couple of notes on links I came across this weekend. The associated websites intend to boost public understanding and appreciation for, respectively, astrophysics and mathematics. The first...
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The New York Times has a nice article on the physics of freestyle aerial skiing, one of the sports in the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Times article also has an accompanying video, on...
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Another update on the Large Hadron Collider: According to a recent New York Timesarticle, the LHC will "operate at only half power for the next two years and then shut down for a yearlong repair...
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The theoretical account of gravity that currently appears to enjoy the greatest support from physicists and astronomers is Einstein's general relativity with allowances for dark matter (see here for...
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There's been a flurry of news coverage in the last 24 hours about successful particle collisions taking place at the delay-plagued Large Hadron Collider in Europe (specifically at a facility known as...
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ESPN has produced a brief "Sport Science" segment analyzing the physics of how close Butler University's potential game-winning shot (released 46 feet from the basket) came to going in, at the end of...
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New ideas are being bandied about regarding the Higgs particle, which is expected possibly to be the signature discovery of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. As I discussed in a 2007 posting, the...
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A website called "Colliding Particles" has provided several short videos (around 10 minutes each) featuring interviews with physicists working on projects at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe (hat...
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I just finished reading the book Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, by Evalyn Gates (website for book). Her objectives are clear: to understand exactly what...
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Here's an entertaining and informative physics-of-hockey video from the University of Michigan, in anticipation of Saturday's "Big Chill at the Big House" outdoor hockey game between Michigan State and...
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Brian Greene has a piece in today's New York Times on the expanding universe, dark energy, and implications for cosmological observation in the distant future.
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The New York Times features a brief interview with Stephen Hawking. Some of the questions are about Hawking personally, but others delve into current developments in particle physics.
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A visitor to the Daily Kos website previews an upcoming announcement on findings from the Large Hadron Collider pertaining to the Higgs Boson. I wrote an introduction to Higgs research at the LHC way...
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Peter Woit characterizes results reported from the Large Hadron Collider in recent days, as follows:The bottom line is much stronger results ruling out supersymmetry, extra dimensions, black holes and...
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A University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineering professor answers the question, "Where do the 'used' electrons go after they have powered my fan or air-conditioner?" for the Wisconsin State...
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The sports blog "Grantland" has an article on the physics of tennis, focusing on how different surfaces (grass, clay, and hardcourt/cement) affect play. Three physics concepts -- the coefficient of...
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Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator (near Chicago) will close down today, as the latest particle physics research has shifted to the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. According to this Chicago...
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The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded today to Brian Schmidt (Australian National University), Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University), and Saul Perlmutter (University of California, Berkeley)....
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Promising, but not yet totally conclusive, evidence from the Large Hadron Collider for the Higgs boson was announced today. As noted here, there are "six areas along the circumference of the LHC that...
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