Quantum Mechanics
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Food Friday: Quarks Explained With Candy
It’s got everything! Chocolate, science, and destruction. What more could you want? Sorry Neil Degrasse Tyson, you have stiff competition…
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Owner of a Lonely Quark: The High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics of Ágnes Mócsy (Women in Science 68)
When planning a trip to the universe’s first millionth of a second of existence, there are really only two things…
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Is the LHC an expensive art installation?
There are reams of writing, hours of talks, and TV programs by scientists on the manifestation of beauty in physics…
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Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory (Women in Science 40)
How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally…
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ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle (Women In Science 19)
In a corner of a room, tucked unostentatiously away from the notice of the raving hordes of just barely contained…
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Parity Girl: The Experimental Physics of Chien-Shiung Wu
How does a neutrino sign its name? Sometimes it’s only the truly absurd questions that can break physics from its…
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Lab Track: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues
I got sorta giddy when I saw that Nick Cave had written a song about the Higgs Boson, and it’s…
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Hummingbirds
This week in my art studio I thought I would learn some theoretical physics and finally wrap my brain around…
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