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Two fermions walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, “So, what’ll it be.”
The first one says, “I’ll have a gin and tonic.”
The second one replies, “Dammit, that’s what I wanted!”
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A gangster assembled an engineer, a chemist, and a physicist, and ordered them to find a way to guarantee that his horse would win in the next week’s races. The day before the race, they reconvened.
Gangster: Engineer, what have you got?
Engineer: I’ve invented a way to weave metallic threads into the saddle blanket so that […]

Wow, i didn’t even know the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced today, I thought it was on Thursday. And, even more fascinating, it has been given to two scientists working on cosmic background radiation!
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 goes to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
“for their discovery of the blackbody […]

The Bell laboratories had built a huge horn antenna that looks much like a ear-trumpet for a giant. It was used for long-distance communication: In 1960, Bell Labs and NASA had launched a large plastic balloon into orbit (called “Echo”) that worked only as a passive reflector, so this antenna was used as a transmitter. […]

In an old tale, Gargamelle is the mother of Gargantua, a giant. In Physics, Gargamelle was the very appropriate name for a giant of a machine: The mother of all bubble chambers, as this article states.
A bubble chamber works like this: You fill it with a liquid and heat the liquid to the point where […]

I have some new CDs, Twelfth Gate, Shatter Messiah and the new Mastodon. The first two will be shortly covered in a combined review, but the Mastodon will get it’s own review some time next week or next weekend, as it is truly remarkable and noteworthy. Until then, look at their MySpace page and […]

This week, astrophysicists has announced the first prove that Dark Matter exists. Dark Matter is a particle that we haven’t detected und understood yet, but we think that it makes up a lot of our universe…but the first important step has been taken, as proving that such a thing exists is comforting, because we now […]

A rather large collection of flash animations to play with, even if you don’t like Physics you can play with them and learn something I suppose.
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This gets linked a lot, but it is really good: The Edge World Question 2006.
Prominent scientists were asked the question:
What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
I didn’t read all the […]