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GREAT RED SPOT NOT AS GREAT -- Physics News Update 881

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:22:00 -0700

"GREAT RED SPOT NOT AS GREAT"
Funny human tricks; measuring spots on Jupiter. :) -j

MEMS

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:38:01 -0700

Scary, but I suppose Feynman would be pleased.

http://herschel.esac.esa.int/Images/2009/SneakPreview_M51composite.jpg

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:56:06 -0700

There is a wonderful book published years ago by Timothy Ferris called "Galaxies", fabulous photos made from terrestrial based telescopes. Fascinating; hummbling. "What immortal hand or eye dare frame your fearful symmetry?!" (William Blake). In any case, with all the "stellar" technology now taking photos and the new images coming on-line, I think a second edition is warranted

CERN Bulletin

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:39:26 -0700

The large hadron collider is coming back to life!

Entanglement In The Macroworld / Science News

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:05:25 -0700

If Einstein was spooked, then maybe we should all be. Quantum Entanglement is stranger than religion, and we all know what Einstein said about science and religion. Maybe this is where they converge.

Why sleep? UCLA&scientist&delves into&one of sciences great mysteries / UCLA Newsroom

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:23:03 -0700

Just a hunch, but something tells me that this guy has missed it altogether. Someone give me a few megabucks to show otherwise, please. I lean towards the reversal of oxidative stress. In any case, this article sounds very speculative. -j

Quotes: Heres to the Crazy Ones

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:23:58 -0700

"Reasonable men adjust themselves to their environment. Unreasonable men attempt to change their environment to suit themselves. Therefore all progress is the work of unreasonable men."

CERN Press Release

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:47:55 -0700

Some of the internet "social networking" sites, like StumbleUpon and Facebook, leave me feeling like I'm talking to the aether. It turns out that the "aether" may really exists in some ways in the form of the "Higgs field", which is predicted by theory but never observed experimentally. You have been reading about this, haven't you? That is one of the objects of research at the CERN, but their collidor died last year during an "incident" where one or more of the magnets quenched. Apparently it has been repaired (who paid for that!) and we may learn about the "Higgs Vector Boson" and the "Higgs field" soon. Scuttlebutt is that when the magnet quenched last year, one ton of liquid helium boiled off (would not want to pay that bill either, or be around when it happened!). Keep watching, physics is stranger than religion.

Brainjar.com: DOM Viewer Demo

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:32:11 -0700

I've been wondering how to do this for along time. Turns out to be fairly simple js code. -j

24 Hours of Booty:

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:34:31 -0700

Team rode yesterday of in memory of my brother-in-law who died of renal cancer. The team raised $1100. Jim has given a jersey signed by Lance Armstrong and his entire team a month before he passed.

Not a good name for the website. Not "bizarre" at all, as previous review suggests. Name gets misinterpreted. Also, some volunteers complain that the site is not well designed.

But is good cause. Runs in Charlotte NC Next year there will be a similar event in Atlanta. Come out and ride.