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Go read (covered this so many times in class but this post does a great job to sum things up with where we stand)… Striving for the Speed of Light : Starts With A Bang: “It’s always easy to point out the difficulties with a dream. The stars, after all, are so incredibly far away, [...]

Before he made his way to Princeton, Einstein fled to Britain to escape the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. Albert Einstein’s immigration papers turn up 80 years after he fled to Britain from Nazi Germany | Mail Online: “Immigration papers from when Albert Einstein dramatically fled Nazi Germany have been discovered after [...]

We’ll talk more about photons and the Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Spring, but this is pretty exciting news… New kind of light created in physics breakthrough – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com: “Physicists have created a new kind of light by chilling photons into a blob state.” Enjoy the break but [...]

If you’ll remember from our studies of String Theory and gravitons, I made the statement that I’m not a big fan of including gravity as a fundamental force of nature. The New York Times has an in-depth piece that explains this more… A Scientist Takes On Gravity – NYTimes.com: “So says Erik Verlinde, 48, a [...]

Yikes! YouTube – Neil DeGrasse Tyson – Death By Black Hole

Remember, science never stops improving itself. Here’s a great example of new findings improving on the data and info first provided by Einstein’s investigations into Brownian Motion… Brownian motion moves beyond Einstein’s equations: “There are nuances to particle movement and energy at tiny scales that one of Einstein’s equations did not capture, according to a [...]

We’ll discuss in class on Friday… STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine | Mail Online: ” I do believe in time travel. Time travel to the future. Time flows like a river and it seems as if each of us is carried relentlessly along by time’s current. But time is like a river [...]

Here are the questions on Einstein that we started in class today (due tomorrow): Einstein Questions Have fun!

As part of our ongoing studies of quantum mechanics, we covered the four fundamental forces of nature today. Here are the handouts from our conversation: * FindingForces.pdf * ForcesofNature.pdf Please make sure to have them finished before class tomorrow!

Today we started our last unit of study… the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. The basics I hope you all gathered from our conversation today involves 1) Einstein’s objections to the developments of the quantum model and 2) the 4 forces of nature. We’ll go more in depth on these two areas this week. In [...]