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Lecture Videos by an Amazing MIT Physics Professor
Yesterday, Sara Rimer of the New York Times profiled Lewin. She explained that the energetic 71-year-old professor became a celebrity when video footage of his lectures hit the web.
Yesterday, Sara Rimer of the New York Times profiled Lewin. She explained that the energetic 71-year-old professor became a celebrity when video footage of his lectures hit the web.
Laws of Nature, Source Unknown
“Gravity,” goes the slogan on posters and bumper stickers. “It isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law.” And what a law. Unlike, say, traffic or drug laws, you don’t have a choice about obeying gravity or any of the other laws of physics. Jump and you will come back down. Faith or good intentions have nothing to do with it.
“Gravity,” goes the slogan on posters and bumper stickers. “It isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law.” And what a law. Unlike, say, traffic or drug laws, you don’t have a choice about obeying gravity or any of the other laws of physics. Jump and you will come back down. Faith or good intentions have nothing to do with it.
Physicists make ripples with their 'magic carpet'
Perfectly timed for pantomime season, a team of scientists has come up with instructions for how to make a flying carpet.
Perfectly timed for pantomime season, a team of scientists has come up with instructions for how to make a flying carpet.
Storing light with sound
The information in a beam of light can be stored for a while by converting it into a sound signal, then reading it back out again as light, researchers have found. The process, which can be done in commercially-available optical fibres, could be used to help make computer processing more efficient in future.
The information in a beam of light can be stored for a while by converting it into a sound signal, then reading it back out again as light, researchers have found. The process, which can be done in commercially-available optical fibres, could be used to help make computer processing more efficient in future.
Rogue waves made of light
Gigantic 'rogue' waves that swallow ships have been brought into the laboratory. No one knows exactly how they form in the oceans, but a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, has made similar freak events in light. The researchers say that their work should help to explain this terrifying maritime phenomenon.
Gigantic 'rogue' waves that swallow ships have been brought into the laboratory. No one knows exactly how they form in the oceans, but a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, has made similar freak events in light. The researchers say that their work should help to explain this terrifying maritime phenomenon.
Energy Source of Northern Lights Found
NASA satellites find energy comes from stream of charged particles from sun.
NASA satellites find energy comes from stream of charged particles from sun.
Physics
Source: ABC News
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 9:02am
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Source: ABC News
Posted on: Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 9:02am
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Missing matter caught in tangled cosmic webs
Cosmologists are always complaining about their inability to find the dark matter in the universe, invisible stuff that's supposedly more prevalent than regular matter. They don't even know what it is, so of course they can't see it. Meantime, a whole bunch of normal matter is missing, too.
Cosmologists are always complaining about their inability to find the dark matter in the universe, invisible stuff that's supposedly more prevalent than regular matter. They don't even know what it is, so of course they can't see it. Meantime, a whole bunch of normal matter is missing, too.
Physics
Source: USA Today
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:04am
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Source: USA Today
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:04am
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Major Physics Breakthrough In Understanding Supersolidity
Physicists are reporting a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter -- supersolidity. Physicists have been manipulating solid helium so they can study its unusual behavior.
Physicists are reporting a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter -- supersolidity. Physicists have been manipulating solid helium so they can study its unusual behavior.
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Dec 10, 2007, 9:49am
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Dec 10, 2007, 9:49am
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Trying To Prove Physics Laws Aren't Really Laws
Ordinarily, one of the best ways to win an argument is to appeal to the immutable laws of physics. Something is because that's the way it has to be, according to the laws of the universe.
Ordinarily, one of the best ways to win an argument is to appeal to the immutable laws of physics. Something is because that's the way it has to be, according to the laws of the universe.
Humid balls help Rockies hit fewer home runs
When the Colorado Rockies baseball team reached the World Series last October, many analysts gave part of the credit to the humid room where the team stores its baseballs. But a new analysis by a pair of physicists suggests that the humidor's effect is not what baseball experts had thought.
When the Colorado Rockies baseball team reached the World Series last October, many analysts gave part of the credit to the humid room where the team stores its baseballs. But a new analysis by a pair of physicists suggests that the humidor's effect is not what baseball experts had thought.
Physics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:40am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:40am
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Ultrafast Optical Shutter Is Switched Entirely By Laser Light
It's a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it.
It's a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it.
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:40am
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:40am
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The Eyes Have It, Thanks to the Ophthalmoscope
German physician Hermann von Helmholtz, who devoted much of his career to studying the eye and the physics of vision and perception, demonstrates his ophthalmoscope to the Berlin Physical Society. The invention revolutionizes ophthalmology.
German physician Hermann von Helmholtz, who devoted much of his career to studying the eye and the physics of vision and perception, demonstrates his ophthalmoscope to the Berlin Physical Society. The invention revolutionizes ophthalmology.
Healthcare
Source: Wired
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 06, 2007, 8:46am
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Source: Wired
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 06, 2007, 8:46am
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Say Hello to the First Antimolecule
Hope you enjoyed it, 'cause it wasn't around long.
Hope you enjoyed it, 'cause it wasn't around long.
Physics
Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 06, 2007, 8:45am
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Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 06, 2007, 8:45am
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Keep your shoes on: T-rays can see right through
Physics
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007, 11:22am
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Source: Reuters
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007, 11:22am
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Neutron Scatter Camera Detects Shielded Radiation To Find Smuggled Nuclear Material
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Nov 26, 2007, 1:26pm
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Nov 26, 2007, 1:26pm
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Giant 'IceCube' could take snaps of Earth’s core
Physics
Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Nov 23, 2007, 10:21am
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Source: New Scientist
Posted on: Friday, Nov 23, 2007, 10:21am
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Have we sealed the universe's fate by looking at it?
Physics
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 22, 2007, 7:23am
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Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 22, 2007, 7:23am
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The Ice-Cream Scoop Taken Out of the Universe
Physics
Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 22, 2007, 7:22am
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Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 22, 2007, 7:22am
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Discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently
Physics
Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Monday, Nov 19, 2007, 7:30am
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Source: EurekAlert
Posted on: Monday, Nov 19, 2007, 7:30am
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Massive Project Will Scour Universe For Gravity Waves
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Saturday, Nov 17, 2007, 12:07pm
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Saturday, Nov 17, 2007, 12:07pm
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Do You Know What Determines Sky's Colors At Sunrise And Sunset?
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Friday, Nov 16, 2007, 1:27pm
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Friday, Nov 16, 2007, 1:27pm
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Scientists Stop Light in 'Trapped Rainbow'
Physics
Source: LiveScience
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 15, 2007, 1:59pm
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Source: LiveScience
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 15, 2007, 1:59pm
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Time Slows When You're on the Fly
Physics
Source: Science
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 15, 2007, 11:02am
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Source: Science
Posted on: Thursday, Nov 15, 2007, 11:02am
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Warp Speed Improves Calculations a Million Times
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007, 7:44am
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007, 7:44am
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Scientists See Early Universe in Grains of Sand
Physics
Source: LiveScience
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007, 12:46pm
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Source: LiveScience
Posted on: Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007, 12:46pm
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Line Between Quantum and Classical Worlds Is At Scale Of Hydrogen Molecule
Physics
Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Nov 12, 2007, 12:38pm
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Source: Science Daily
Posted on: Monday, Nov 12, 2007, 12:38pm
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The Man Who Imagined Wormholes and Schooled Hawking
Physics
Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Monday, Nov 12, 2007, 8:34am
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Source: Discover Magazine
Posted on: Monday, Nov 12, 2007, 8:34am
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