- If you like PhD comics, they're working on a movie: Trailer here.
- The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas.
- You have 1 week left to work out some detail of the 100 year spaceship and send in an abstract for the public symposium Sep 30 - Oct 2nd in Orlando "intended to seed creative energy to “kick-start” the long term research goals." It's for sentences like this that you hire PR people.
- Partly related, I learned the other day from SciAm that the new buzzword after "synergy" and "horizontal integration" is now "convergence." So let's converge on something then.
- Also, the new-name creationists have switched from iIng everything from iKnow to iDontcare and are now replacing spaces with dots, following the ICANN's decision to allow customizable URL suffixes. Ironically though, Google seems to replace the dot with a space if you search for a tag. Anyway, I see huge potential for the arXiv. No more SUSY or MSSM, it's now mond.4u and beyond.higgs. Leave your physics-themed suggestions in the comments!
- Something to look at: Camouflage art.
- And something else to look at: Dear Photograph
- If you like the comic series Asterix and Obelix, you'll love this Study of traumatic brain injuries. To quote from the conclusions "Roman nationality, hypoglossal paresis, lost helmet, and ingestion of the magic potion were significantly correlated with severe initial impairment of consciousness (p ≤ 0.05)."
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
This and That
Some random things that caught my attention recently:
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H-Z D-R: Lorentz forces varies as B^2. Bummer.
ReplyDeletehttp://staff.science.uva.nl/~frings/pub/explo_zylon.pdf
06 December 2001, milliseconds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnet#Exploding_electromagnets
1000 tesla, microseconds
100-year spaceship. The genesis of this study is to foster a rebirth of a sense of wonder. Fire all the managers. Examine the subdivisions of inquiry,
http://70.167.125.195:8080/100yss/callForAbstract.jsp
Social advocacy needs a starship.
In 1896, psychic and mystic Hélène Smith had visions of Mars and learned to speak Martian (remarkably similar to French). Detroit or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115683 there are no fluffy pink tutus for extended space travel. Traveling at 1000 miles/second, well beyond any achievable propulsion modality now imaginable, the 100 year spaceship will translate 0.0054 lightyears (including leap years).
Professional management assures that an answer will not exceed its question.
(No soldier is deterred by threats of his brain being emulsified. Aim at crotches.)
I'm going to register
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Hi Bee,
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the cerebral/sensory potpourri. The interesting thing I find about the visionary thought of others being that they not only have the ability to teach you new things about the world, yet as importantly new things about yourself. Like for instance that camouflage art where invisibility not being a matter of transparency, yet rather what may be unique and yet still indistinguishable from the background.
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
-Jonathan Swift
Best,
Phil
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There's an interesting psychological study to be done about the strong emotional reactions of some individuals to theoretical physics research, especially when said individuals have little to no understanding of the field.
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note, the Asterix article made me laugh, but I'm also somewhat bemused --- it appears to actually be published in a serious journal...