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| Url: | http://cosmicvariance.com/ |
| Author(s): | Sean Carroll, Mark Trodden, Facebook User, John Stephen Conway, Facebook User, Facebook User |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | science, physics, culture |
| Description: | Random Samplings from a universe of ideas. Several Scientists take on Science, Culture, History etc. |
| Ratings |  (46 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 171 Followers |
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The Road to science
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Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite contemporary authors. I find his wordsmithing absolutely compelling, right up there with Salman Rushdie (which is high praise in my book). Both McCarthy and Ru...more |
2009-12-04
Michael Sandel’s Justice
| To nobody’s surprise, universities are increasingly putting some effort into putting high-quality course lectures on the Web. (Where this ultimately will lead isn’t completely clear.) ...more |
2009-12-02
Higgs in Space!
| Winner of the coveted “Best Paper Title Among Today’s arXiv Postings.”Higgs in Space!C.B. Jackson, Geraldine Servant, Gabe Shaughnessy, Tim M.P. Tait, Marco Taoso Abstract: We ...more |
2009-12-01
Bohr, Einstein, Puppies, Puppets
| We haven’t forgotten (read — “I presume Daniel hasn’t forgotten”); we owe several very generous donors rewards from our Donors Choose Challenge. But while our appreci...more |
2009-12-01
The LHC Surpasses the Tevatron in Energy…But What About Power?
| Today the LHC at CERN became the planet’s highest-energy particle accelerator, surpassing the Tevatron by 20%. The LHC accelerated protons from the injection energy of 0.450 TeV (0.45 trill...more |
2009-11-30
A Perpetually Rotten Idea
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Am I the only one who finds the idea of a “perpetual calendar” ridiculous? You know who uses calendars? People who have no idea what day it is |
2009-11-30
The Muppets take on Queen
| Here’s what happens when you combine two icons from the 70’s:Just the right amount of levity for this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Thanks to the late Freddie Mercury and Jim Henson fo...more |
2009-11-28
Thanksgiving
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This year we give thanks for one of the bedrock principles of classical mechanics: conservation of momentum. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s...more |
2009-11-26
First Collisions in the LHC!
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The LHC circulated two counter-rotating beams today, and a few hours ago the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event, shown in the display above. This is a fantastic milestone for the LH...more |
2009-11-23
Collisions!!!
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We’ve been waiting decades for this and here it is - first collisions at the LHC! WooHoo! The ATLAS detector saw the first collision this afternoon, followed soon by CMS. The machine was ...more |
2009-11-23
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Roger D Paterson MDMar 31
Combining culture, science, physics is great.
How about adding cosmology, world history, and religion as well?
Can we finally find the laughter that comes with intellectually honest introspection?
Let's hope for it!
Jotare DhaibaMar 17
Mushfiq M RahmanAug 11, 2008