Yes, you read the title correctly. In a fascinating paper written by George Ellis, of me ol’ alma mater the University of Cape Town and Tony Rothman, from Princeton University in New Jersey, they posit that the place where this crystallisation occurs is, interestingly, the present. Not as in gift (although the present is a […]
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Nano ho-ho
In the spirit of Christmas, I’d like to share with you all the world’s smallest snowman.(Click on image for link to site)Credit: NPL siteThe snowman was developed by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and is a marvel of festivity-inspired nano-joll…
The LHC's first collisions
Woohoo! I couldn’t, personally, be more thrilled.No doubt, people who actually understand properly the physics and true awesomeness behind the LHC couldn’t be more thrilled either. Even more so than I.Because, * fanfare *, the first collisions in the …
The teapot effect, end of
So apparently, there’s something called the teapot effect. Or, rather, there was.No, it’s not what you might first imagine it is. At least, it’s not what I first imaged it was. Instead, it’s apparently the name used for the phenomenon whereby the sp…