Items tagged with physics

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Are Neutral Atoms Really Neutral? Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - 22:46:55 - Ehud Rattner Are neutrons really neutral? Are neutral atoms really neutral? These two questions are actually quite critical for coming to grips with possible... read more

Leading Physicist John Wheeler Dies at 96 Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - 12:35:30 - Iddo Genuth John A. Wheeler, the fertile-minded physicist who popularized mind-stretching ideas about black holes, worm holes and quantum foam and also... read more

A Twin Universe Before the Big Bang? Thursday, April 10th, 2008 - 20:11:48 - Iddo Genuth Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity... read more

Petawatt Laser Turned On Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - 22:36:06 - Iddo Genuth The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the... read more

Black Hole Lawsuit Friday, March 28th, 2008 - 14:38:20 - Iddo Genuth The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling... read more

New Explanation for Missing Antimatter Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 - 14:29:38 - Ehud Rattner It is one the biggest mysteries in physics - where did all the antimatter go? Now a team of physicists claims to have found the first ever hint of an... read more

NASA Discoveries: Neutrinos and Cosmic Fog Saturday, March 8th, 2008 - 22:10:26 - Iddo Genuth A NASA satellite has uncovered evidence that a sea of neutrinos, almost weightless elementary particles that zip around at nearly the speed of light... read more

Artificial Black Hole Created in Lab Friday, March 7th, 2008 - 16:25:39 - Iddo Genuth Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Friedrich Konig from the University of St Andrews used intense light pulses to create an artificial `event horizon' -... read more

Physicists Store and Retrieve... Nothing Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 - 12:56:29 - Sarah Gingichashvili It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a... read more

First Video of an Electron Revealed Sunday, February 24th, 2008 - 10:33:31 - Iddo Genuth With the use of a newly developed technology for generating short pulses from intense laser light, so-called atto-second pulses, scientists at the... read more

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