August 2009
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WatchExplosion of Type Ia Supernovae From Multiple Ignition Points
Type Ia supernovae are thought to be white dwarf stars in binary systems that explode due to a thermonuclear runaway. This movie shows a simulation of Type Ia supernovae exploding from multiple ignition points. When the hot ash breaks through the surface of the star, it spreads rapidly across the stellar surface, converges at the...
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Why Don’t We Know When the LHC Will Restart? →
We’re all waiting for the LHC to restart. Current plans call for collisions later this year, but at lower energies than originally hoped.
Why is it so hard to say for sure? Here’s a nice article in the CERN Bulletin that lays out some of the difficulties.
Due to the huge amount of inter-dependency between different areas of work in the LHC, even a small change can necessitate a...
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WatchVisualization of Electron-Scale Turbulence in Strongly Shaped Fusion Plasma
This model depicts the global turbulent transport of plasma using geometric data from the National Spherical Torus Experiment. Researchers say the data was difficult to render directly, but they developed a technique to efficiently store, access and transform the simulation data in graphics memory, which lets them render...
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Watchhiggsboson:
Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers
“Atom Smashers” examines 15 months at Fermilab as it scours the subatomic world for the Higgs boson particle.
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40-year-old data tackles very modern physics... →
Looking back at old data allows physicists to place new constraints on physics beyond the standard model and propose a new approach to uncovering evidence of new physics.
The Large Hadron Collider is still going through a painful commissioning process—coming online in time for the winter shutdown is probably not what researchers had in mind when they broke it the first time. So, what is a...
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The Higgs Boson Tumbls! →
Learn more about the Higgs Boson, and get the latest news on the search for it.
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Watchlilbumps:
visualizing 10 dimensions
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Big Bang Briefly →
jabinante:
A pretty succinct description of the beginning of time and space.
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This Kilogram Has A Weight-Loss Problem | NPR →
The official kilogram is kept locked inside a secured vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris. Scientists are so paranoid that they’ve only taken it out on three occasions: in 1889, 1946 and 1989. Each time, they’ve compared it to a set of copies. In 1889, the copies and the kilogram weighed the same, but by 1989, they had drifted apart. Based on the...
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Simple Explanation for Mysterious Observations →
Recently, several astronomical experiments have revealed mysterious components of elementary particles. But up until now, the origin of electrons and positrons is unknown. Is dark matter the actual origin of this radiation, as some physicists speculate?
Now an international team of astrophysicists, including the Bochum junior professor Dr. Julia Becker and the Dortmund physicist Prof. Dr....
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Argonne Open House! →
Argonne is opening its gates to the community Saturday, Aug. 29, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — rain or shine. Nearly 100 engaging exhibits, demonstrations, tours and presentations are being planned for a day of fun and education for the entire family.
OMG! If you’re in the Chicago area please go to this.
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The Physics Game: Why I created Gravity and Levity... →
Physics students, for the most part, are eternally insecure. Physics has sort of a cult of intelligence, where we worship the “heroic” figures of the past, pass on mythologies of their other-worldly brainpower, and glorify their acts of intellectual arrogance. It is no surprise, then, that every student is secretly afraid that s/he isn’t really smart enough to do physics as a career, and that if...
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In Search of Antimatter Galaxies →
NASA’s space shuttle program is winding down. With only about half a dozen more flights, shuttle crews will put the finishing touches on the International Space Station (ISS), bringing to an end twelve years of unprecedented orbital construction. An act of Congress in 2008 added another flight to the schedule near the end of the program. Currently scheduled for 2010, this extra flight of...
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Enjoy the new theme!
Here’s a link for your dashboards.
Hi everyone!
I’m Kevin (check out my other tumblr), and I’m going to take over here and start contributing to Fuck Yeah Physics. Now Foobarnacle will still be contributing and involved, but not as often. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the great physics posts coming.
Also, you can now send all your tips for great physics articles/pictures/links to me with the tipline link in the sidebar now.
Abandoned?
So you may have (and by “may have” I mean “definitely haven’t”) noticed that I haven’t been posting, well, at all. Now that I’m spending most of my day reading and thinking science, and soon maybe finally doing some science, I don’t find myself wanting to read and think about science in my off hours. HOWEVER, Tumblr needs physics! Would anyone...
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– Most lucrative college majors - highest starting salaries - Jul. 24, 2009 (via thebumblebees)
FUCK YEAH PHYSICS
Large Hadron Collider to restart at half its... →
…and it’s still a ridiculously high energy.
