Talk Like A Physicist

Physics Rap - that’s exactly why… I’m a physics guy!

 You don’t love something until you rap about it!

So, here’s the story from alpha to zeta,
eta, theta, iota to omega.
If you got a quantity to quantify,
it sounds cooler in Greek… don’t ask me why!

Complete lyrics after the gap.

More »

Thursday Threads - Physics of falling

Source

Happy Valentine’s Day: From Physical Review D Personal Ads

Mature paradigm with firm observational support seeks a fundamental theory in which to be embedded. No loop quantum gravity theories, please. Contact alan@mit.edu.

Elegant theory of everything desires to explore the landscape with a phenomenon in the hope that it will lead to a prediction. Let’s get physical! Contact ed@ias.edu.

In case you are wondering, Alan is Alan Guth of Inflation fame and Ed is Ed Witten of M theory.

From Fermila Today Via Asymptotia, & Often in Error

Motionless Monday - frozen Smoke

Frozen Smoke

Click for a better view.

Tubular to chaotic - captured in a single frame.

Source

Thursday Threads - Blackhole T-shirt

Black Hole T-shirt

Front features a geometrical representation of the gravitational field of a black hole, accompanied by the equation for the Schwarzchild radius. Maxwell’s equations on the back.

Source

Motionless Monday : Colliding Water

Colliding Water.

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics

Talks at TED are always interesting. I think it is just the venue, people feel compelled to give inspiring talk.