Category Archives: Physics Talk

Astroid Fever – astroid density in the solar system

Of course one knows about the astroid belt, but it has never been visualized as clearly as this image and the compendium video shows. Click for a better view or visit Current Map of the Solar System The terrestrial planets … Continue reading

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Collective Nouns for Physicists : A current of physicist, A knot of physicists

The Vocabulary column in NY Times had an interesting question: This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to submit novel nouns of assemblage for modern phenomena. A bucket of Wiis? A swamp of blogs? A murder of crowds?   So what would … Continue reading

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Path integral formulation of your life.

Path Integral Formulation of your life. I know that if I were to draw my life, it will have so many kinks, and loops and several places where there are discontinuities. And oh, yah, I also have a couple of … Continue reading

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Physics related facebook status messages 0 Part IV

  Sunny is applying irresistible force to an immovable object. Sunny is Blue shifted Sunny believes in emergent gravity Sunny believes that ice cream is responsible for emergent gravity Sunny is exploring Short Range Correlations Sunny is going through a … Continue reading

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Thinking with 50,000 Volts of electricity – Twitter combined with Tesla Coil

Click on the above to see a lot more interesting details. Not sure about you, but I think I would think better and more clearly, if I were surrounded by 50,000 volts, displayed as beautiful dancing arcs, streaming out of … Continue reading

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Around the World in 80 Telescopes

Around the World in 80 Telescopes: I am eagerly awaiting the start of the webcast of around the world in 80 telescope. It starts on 4/3/09 at 9.00 UT; so about an hour from now for me. Go here to … Continue reading

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New physics inspired words : Bozone, Egoravity

Bozone: noun, The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. Egoravity: noun, the physical force identified in Newton’s (unpublished) fourth law of physics– that everything revolves around me. From Addictionary. Bookmark, Share and Enjoy:

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More physics related facebook status messages part III

  #Sunny is wearing neutrino repellent armor. #Sunny : my Schrödinger cat is entangled; might need to call a quantum mechanic. #Sunny : recession is so bad – I checked the value of pi yesterday and it has gone down … Continue reading

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Wee Planet : 3D panoramic photos as planets – its all about coordinate systems

A beautiful panoramic picture of Paris. 360 degree photo called Eiffel planet, was built from 80 pictures. To create this effect, all you need to do is to use the “polar coordinate filter” and then use rotational filter in your … Continue reading

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pendulum Trajectory

This picture shows the trajectory of a pendulum, as seen from the bottom. The pendulum bob is equipped with a white punctual light source, which emits in all directions. On the picture you can notice a drop in the amplitude, … Continue reading

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Differences between how a theorist and an experimentalist solve a problem

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H\heartsuit=E\heartsuit; sin(\heartsuit), d\heartsuit/dt  Physicist tries to understand valentine’s day

This is the geekiest Facebook Status message I have posted – my usual techniques are useless! Thank god for made by Godiva.   If you haven’t figured, is the chemical formula of two of the compounds in Chocolate. Taken from … Continue reading

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Gamers are taking over the word “Physics” and I hate it – last warning to Gamers

Gamers (video game coders and players) are taking over the word “Physics” and I absolutely hate it! I did a simple search for “car physics” on Google and 25% of the links on the first page are for coding the … Continue reading

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