Physics
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Kakalios, James [Kakalios, James]

SECTION 5 MODERN MECHANICS AND INVENTIONS CHAPTER FOURTEEN Quantum Invisible “Ink” Light is an electromagnetic wave that is actually comprised of discrete packets of energy. New York City in 1933 ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Marcus Chown

SHADOWS OF SPACE-TIME The slowing of time and the shrinking of space is the price that must be paid so that everyone in the Universe, no matter what their state ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Aaronson, Scott [Aaronson, Scott]

Exercise (harder): Prove that it's possible to choose the “canonical” maximal flows in such a way that making a small change to U or |ψ produces only a small change ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Lisa Randall

“Super” words abound in physics terminology. We have superconducting, supercooling, supersaturated, superfluid, the Super conducting Supercollider (the SSC)—which would have been the highest-energy collider today had Congress not canceled it ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Robert Oerter

The Strong, the Weak, and the Strange By 1950, physicists had come to realize that they needed yet another classification to deal with the nuclear forces. On the one hand, ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Richard Feynman & Robert B. Leighton & Matthew Sands

Fig. 23–4. The electric and magnetic fields between the plates of a capacitor. Now suppose that instead of dc, we put an ac of low frequency on the plates. (We ...
( Category: Magnetism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Susan Casey

Wherever peppy earthquake action meets ocean, there will be giant waves. Which means not only Alaska but the entire North American west coast is poised to produce them. If you ...
( Category: Oceanography March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:John Brockman

THE LIMITS OF INTUITION BRIAN ENO Artist; composer; musician; recording producer, U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon We sometimes tend to think that ideas and feelings arising from our intuition ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Brian Greene

Figure 9.1 A doughnut, or torus, and its multihandled cousins. You might think that the number of holes in the curled-up Planck-sized dimensions—mountaintop physics par excellence—has now kicked an experimentally ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:John D. Barrow

LAMBDA – A NEW COSMIC FORCE “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

Mysteries and Multiverses: Can a multiverse provide explanatory power of which we’d otherwise be deprived? No doubt you’ve noticed that even the most sanguine projections suggest that predictions emerging from ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Sean Carroll

COLLAPSE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION The thing about this discussion that tends to rub people the wrong way—and with good reason—is the crucial role played by observation. When we observed ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Frank Close

Figure 6 Neutrinos produced in the decay of pions and moons. (a) A pion decays into a muon and a single neutrino. (b) When a muon (denoted it) decays into ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )