When I was a student, I never imagined that one day, while preparing for my Quantum Mechanics class, I would be designing experimental procedures for a "Quantum Mechanics Lab". I would have loved to see this as an undergraduate
Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars
doi.org/10.1088/1475...
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LAWPHYSICS is back! The first webinar of this season will be this Wednesday, Sept. 10. Pellegrino Piantadosi (NYUAD) will talk about "Rediscovering the Standard Model with AI".
Join us! September 10, 15:00 UTC (10:00 am Chicago)
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In my first year as a faculty member, I used Thornton & Marion, and then I transitioned to Taylor for the past six years. Students definitely engage more with the latter.
This Wednesday, April 23, 15:00 UTC, Kevin Kelly @kjkelly.bsky.social (Texas A&M) will talk about "What's lurking around the corner at neutrino experiments?".
Join us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EtR...
![[W176] Claudio Toni: The Atomki anomalies and the X17](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtzciyzb2n3cjutyqs743ke2/bafkreianicn4kudhseofkonqksxiiv5fgl6uc2h3a2f2lb5icanzqxw4re)
Next in LAWPHYSICS: Tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 March, 15:00 UTC (10:00 am US Central time). Claudio Toni (LAPTh, France) will talk about "The Atomki anomalies and the X17". Join us!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKRP...
Our guests will be Diego Restrepo (U. de Antioquia, Colombia),
Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT/UNESP ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil),
Marta Losada (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE), and
Fernando Quevedo (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE)
LAWPHYSICS is turning TEN years old! We celebrate a decade of bringing high energy physics research anywhere you can connect to YouTube! Join us for a special webinar tomorrow, Feb. 21, 15:00 UTC
lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...
Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
I’ve seen some posts recently, about the value of basic research, in light of funding cuts and demands that research have immediate economic justification.
Let me collect some info here, in a thread, about why it’s a bad idea to attach those sorts of demands to funding. 🧵 🧪 ⚛️
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Tomorrow, our guest at LAWPHYSICS will be Jack Shergold (IFIC Valencia), who will talk about the cosmic neutrino background. Join us!
Wednesday, November 27, 15:00 UTC (9:00 am Chicago).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_5H...
This Wednesday we have a #lawphysics webinar on the #cosmic #neutrino background, given by #JackDShergold. This will be the last webinar of the year, do not miss it!
lawphysics.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/w...
Slide with quote and photo of Steven Weinberg
Very happy to have attended the Weinberg Institute inaugural conference, honoring Steve's life and legacy. Paraphrasing Preskill, 'in all the history of science very few squiggles have described nature like those of Steve Weinberg' (slide taken from Seiberg's talk)
Black and white photo of Abraham Flexner. He wears a charcoal pinstripe suit and it seen from the shoulders up, looking a the camera. He is balding, with white hair on the sides of his head, and thin rimmed pince-nez glasses.
Why fund basic science?
Abraham Flexner, who reformed medical and science education in the US, founded and served as first director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and helped many scientists (including Einstein) leave Nazi Germany, was born #OTD in 1866. 🧪 (1/n)
www.ias.edu/scholars/fle...