Tag: Physics
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Yes, it’s all true. After 55 years a woman gets the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Donna Strickland, from Canada, was awarded today the Prize for her outstanding contributions in the field of laser physics. In case you wonder, Mrs.…
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2017 Nobel Prize for Gravitational Waves
Yes, that’s it. Today Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne (you do remember him, right? Interstellar, anyone?) and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize 2017 –…
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Costs of short-sighted politics – Brexit consequences for UK S&T
Difficult to ignore what’s happening now in the UK, and the post-Brexit mayhem. While I don’t do politics on this blog for a precise…
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2015 Nobel Prize goes to Neutrinos
…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 3
The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the…
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Bosons and X-Rays – Hear the sound of natural particles
I have posted a while ago something about the music of space – ie, the eerie sounds celestial bodies make when translated into plasma…
