Particle physicists plan to build a “neutrino factory” in the UK. I almost spent a summer in high school searching for neutrinos in a Spanish mine (as part of a mandatory science thesis), until at the last minute I switched to an astrophysics project instead. Examining cosmic background radiation for fractal patterns…very trendy at the time.
Category: The Universe
He Blinded Me With Science.
Mathematics professor Jordan Ellenberg explains why the media is so taken with Stephen Wolfram’s recent tome.
Schroedinger’s Universe.
Discover interviews physicist John Wheeler about the quantum nature of reality. “Wheeler conjectures we are part of a universe that is a work in progress; we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself – and building itself. It’s not only the future that is still undetermined but the past as well. And by peering back into time, even all the way back to the Big Bang, our present observations select one out of many possible quantum histories for the universe.” (Via Anil Dash.)
Genius or Hubris?
Scientists line up for and against former boy genius Stephen Wolfram’s paradigm-busting paean to algorithms.
Paradigm shift.
Atomic clocks in space might prep the way for post-Einstein revisions to the laws of physics.