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by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
What have people been talking about this week in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity?... Read more »
Lisa J. Kewley, David Rupke, H. Jabran Zahid, Margaret J. Geller, & Elizabeth J. Barton. (2010) Metallicity Gradients and Gas Flows in Galaxy Pairs. arXiv. DOI: 1008.2204
Mayer L, Kazantzidis S, Escala A, & Callegari S. (2010) Direct formation of supermassive black holes via multi-scale gas inflows in galaxy mergers. Nature, 466(7310), 1082-4. PMID: 20740009
Mikhail Gorchtein, Stefano Profumo, & Lorenzo Ubaldi. (2010) Probing Dark Matter with AGN Jets. arXiv. arXiv: 1008.2230v1
J. K. Webb, J. A. King, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, R. F. Carswell, & M. B. Bainbridge. (2010) Evidence for spatial variation of the fine structure constant. arXiv. arXiv: 1008.3907v1
Harold V. Parks, & James E. Faller. (2010) A Simple Pendulum Determination of the Gravitational Constant. Phys. Rev. Let. arXiv: 1008.3203v2
L. Borsten, D. Dahanayake, M. J. Duff, A. Marrani, & W. Rubens. (2010) Four-qubit entanglement from string theory. Physical Review Letters. arXiv: 1005.4915v2
by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
One of the things I sometimes find myself writing about is the “bad” language used by physicists. Sometimes we say Riemannian when we really should say psuedo-Riemannian, sometimes we call something a metric when it really is a line element – the kind of nitpicky pet-peeves that practically everyone has about literature in their field. Today, I’m going to be talking about the bad language in physics in a totally different context however.... Read more »
Regge, T. (1961) General relativity without coordinates. Il Nuovo Cimento, 19(3), 558-571. DOI: 10.1007/BF02733251
Galassi, M. (1993) Lapse and shift in Regge calculus. Physical Review D, 47(8), 3254-3264. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.47.3254
Kheyfets A, LaFave NJ, & Miller WA. (1990) Null-strut calculus. II. Dynamics. Physical review D: Particles and fields, 41(12), 3637-3651. PMID: 10012308
ALPER ÜNGÖR, & ALLA SHEFFER. (2002) PITCHING TENTS IN SPACE-TIME: MESH GENERATION FOR DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science , 13(2). info:/10.1142/S0129054102001059
by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
One of the things I sometimes find myself writing about is the “bad” language used by physicists. Sometimes we say Riemannian when we really should say psuedo-Riemannian, sometimes we call something a metric when it really is a line element – the kind of nitpicky pet-peeves that practically everyone has about literature in their field. Today, I’m going to be talking about the bad language in physics in a totally different context however.
Teepee Lattices, Future-Pointing Wigwams ........ Read more »
Regge, T. (1961) General relativity without coordinates. Il Nuovo Cimento, 19(3), 558-571. DOI: 10.1007/BF02733251
Galassi, M. (1993) Lapse and shift in Regge calculus. Physical Review D, 47(8), 3254-3264. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.47.3254
Kheyfets A, LaFave NJ, & Miller WA. (1990) Null-strut calculus. II. Dynamics. Physical review D: Particles and fields, 41(12), 3637-3651. PMID: 10012308
ALPER ÜNGÖR, & ALLA SHEFFER. (2002) PITCHING TENTS IN SPACE-TIME: MESH GENERATION FOR DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science , 13(2). info:/10.1142/S0129054102001059
by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
What have people been talking about this week in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity?... Read more »
Lo Curto, G., Mayor, M., Benz, W., Bouchy, F., Lovis, C., Moutou, C., Naef, D., Pepe, F., Queloz, D., Santos, N.... (2010) The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXVII. Astronomy and Astrophysics. info:other/10.1051/0004-6361/200913523
D. J. Champion, G. B. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, R. T. Edwards, D. C. Backer, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, W. Coles, P. B. Demorest.... (2010) Measuring the mass of solar system planets using pulsar timing. Astrophysical Journal. arXiv: 1008.3607v1
Berné O, Marcelino N, & Cernicharo J. (2010) Waves on the surface of the Orion molecular cloud. Nature, 466(7309), 947-9. PMID: 20725034
B. W. Ritchie, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, & N. Langer. (2010) A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1: II. Dynamical constraints on magnetar progenitor masses from the eclipsing binary W13. Astronomy . arXiv: 1008.2840v1
Ephraim Fischbach,, Peter A. Sturrock,, Jere H. Jenkins,, Daniel Javorsek II,, John B. Buncher,, & John T. Gruenwald. (2010) Evidence for Solar Influences on Nuclear Decay Rates . Fifth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry. info:/1007.3318
P. E. Koehler, F. Bečvář, M. Krtička, J. A. Harvey, & K. H. Guber. (2010) Anomalous fluctuations of s-wave reduced neutron widths of $^{192,194}$Pt resonances. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 105(7). arXiv: 1007.3675v1
Palenzuela, C., Lehner, L., & Liebling, S. (2010) Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes. Science, 329(5994), 927-930. DOI: 10.1126/science.1191766
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Assef, R., Kochanek, C., Brodwin, M., Cool, R., Forman, W., Gonzalez, A., Hickox, R., Jones, C., Le Floc'h, E., Moustakas, J.... (2010) LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTRAL TEMPLATES FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND GALAXIES FROM 0.03 TO 30 μm. The Astrophysical Journal, 713(2), 970-985. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/713/2/970
Albert P. Linnell, Paula Szkody, Richard M. Plotkin, Jon Holtzman, Mark Seibert, Thomas E. Harrison, & Steve B. Howell. (2010) GALEX and Optical Light Curves of WX LMi, SDSSJ103100.5 202832.2 and SDSSJ121209.31 013627.7. The Astrophysical Journal. arXiv: 1003.2564v1
Kjær, K., Leibundgut, B., Fransson, C., Jerkstrand, A., & Spyromilio, J. (2010) The 3-D structure of SN 1987A's inner ejecta. Astronomy and Astrophysics. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014538
Knispel, B., Allen, B., Cordes, J., Deneva, J., Anderson, D., Aulbert, C., Bhat, N., Bock, O., Bogdanov, S., Brazier, A.... (2010) Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1195253
Hansen, S., Juncher, D., & Sparre, M. (2010) AN ATTRACTOR FOR DARK MATTER STRUCTURES. The Astrophysical Journal, 718(2). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/718/2/L68
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2010) Evidence for an Anomalous Like-Sign Dimuon Charge Asymmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 105(8), 1801. info:/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.081801
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2010) Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry. Phys. Rev. D, 82(3), 32001. info:/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.032001
by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
What have people been talking about this week in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity?
Turns out this week, high energy and astrophysics were pretty silent, but computer science had some big gossip.... Read more »
Faulkner, T., Iqbal, N., Liu, H., McGreevy, J., & Vegh, D. (2010) Strange Metal Transport Realized by Gauge/Gravity Duality. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1189134
Smolyaninov, I., & Narimanov, E. (2010) Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters, 105(6). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.067402
Balachandran, A., Joseph, A., & Padmanabhan, P. (2010) Non-Pauli Transitions from Spacetime Noncommutativity. Physical Review Letters, 105(5). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.051601
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A. Kappes for the IceCube Collaboration. (2010) IceCube: Neutrino Messages from GRBs. Proceedings: Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts. arXiv: 1007.4629v1
Adam Moss, James P. Zibin, & Douglas Scott. (2010) Precision Cosmology Defeats Void Models for Acceleration. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.3725v1
Hiyama, E., Kamimura, M., Yamamoto, Y., & Motoba, T. (2010) Five-Body Cluster Structure of the Double-Λ Hypernucleus _{ΛΛ}^{11}Be. Physical Review Letters, 104(21). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.212502
Peter Sorensen. (2010) A coherent understanding of low-energy nuclear recoils in liquid xenon. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.3549v2
Stephen D. H. Hsu. (2010) White holes and eternal black holes. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.2934v1
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Why Shu's “Cosmological Models with No Big Bang” does not suggest a valid cosmological model.... Read more »
Wun-Yi Shu. (2010) Cosmological Models with No Big Bang. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.1750v1
Perlmutter, S., Aldering, G., Goldhaber, G., Knop, R., Nugent, P., Castro, P., Deustua, S., Fabbro, S., Goobar, A., Groom, D.... (1999) Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal, 517(2), 565-586. DOI: 10.1086/307221
Hubble, E. (1929) A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 15(3), 168-173. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.15.3.168
Bianchi, E., Rovelli, C., & Kolb, R. (2010) Cosmology forum: Is dark energy really a mystery?. Nature, 466(7304), 321-322. DOI: 10.1038/466321a
Sean M. Carroll. (2000) The Cosmological Constant. LivingRev.Rel.4:1,2001. arXiv: astro-ph/0004075v2
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Paul A Crowther, Olivier Schnurr, Raphael Hirschi, Norhasliza Yusof, Richard J Parker, Simon P Goodwin, & Hasan Abu Kassim. (2010) The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv: 1007.3284v1
Brown, W., Anderson, J., Gnedin, O., Bond, H., Geller, M., Kenyon, S., & Livio, M. (2010) A GALACTIC ORIGIN FOR HE 0437–5439, THE HYPERVELOCITY STAR NEAR THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD. The Astrophysical Journal, 719(1). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/719/1/L23
Hodges-Kluck, E., Reynolds, C., Miller, M., & Cheung, C. (2010) A DEEP OBSERVATION OF THE X-SHAPED RADIO GALAXY 4C 00.58: A CANDIDATE FOR MERGER-INDUCED REORIENTATION? . The Astrophysical Journal, 717(1). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/1/L37
Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Raul Garcia-Patron, Vittorio Giovannetti, & Yutaka Shikano. (2010) The quantum mechanics of time travel through post-selected teleportation. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.2615v2
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F. Courbin, M. Tewes, S. G. Djorgovski, D. Sluse, A. Mahabal, F. Rerat, & G. Meylan. (2010) First case of strong gravitational lensing by a QSO : SDSS J0013 1523 at z . Astronomy . arXiv: 1002.4991v2
Butt, Y. (2009) Beyond the myth of the supernova-remnant origin of cosmic rays. Nature, 460(7256), 701-704. DOI: 10.1038/nature08127
Daniel T. Cumberbatch, Joyce. A. Guzik, Joseph Silk, L. Scott Watson, & Stephen M. West. (2010) Light WIMPs in the Sun: Constraints from Helioseismology. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.5102v1
Miller, J. (2010) Laboratory experiment shows that noise can be lessened for LISA. Physics Today, 63(7), 14. DOI: 10.1063/1.3463616
Eugenio Bianchi, & Carlo Rovelli. (2010) Why all these prejudices against a constant?. arXiv. arXiv: 1002.3966v3
Attila Meszaros, Lajos G. Balazs, Zsolt Bagoly, & Peter Veres. (2010) Impact on cosmology of the celestial anisotropy of the short gamma-ray bursts. Baltic Astronomy, Vol.18, 293-296 (2009). arXiv: 1005.1558v1
Chris Clarkson, & Roy Maartens. (2010) Inhomogeneity and the foundations of concordance cosmology. Class. Quantum Grav. 27 124008 (2010). arXiv: 1005.2165v2
Mosconi, M., Fujii, K., Mengoni, A., Domingo-Pardo, C., Käppeler, F., Abbondanno, U., Aerts, G., Álvarez-Pol, H., Alvarez-Velarde, F., Andriamonje, S.... (2010) Neutron physics of the Re/Os clock. I. Measurement of the (n,γ) cross sections of ^{186,187,188}Os at the CERN n_TOF facility. Physical Review C, 82(1). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.015802
Nikodem J. Poplawski. (2010) Cosmology with torsion - an alternative to cosmic inflation. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.0587v1
The CDF Collaboration, & T. Aaltonen. (2009) Measurement of $d\sigma/dy$ of Drell-Yan $e^ e^-$ pairs in the $Z$ Mass Region from $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}. Physics Letters. arXiv: 0908.3914v4
Petr Horava, & Charles M. Melby-Thompson. (2010) General Covariance in Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.2410v1
Samuel E. Gralla, & Robert M. Wald. (2009) Derivation of Gravitational Self-Force. arXiv. arXiv: 0907.0414v1
J. Ambjorn, A. Goerlich, J. Jurkiewicz, & R. Loll. (2010) CDT---an Entropic Theory of Quantum Gravity. arXiv. arXiv: 1007.2560v1
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Pakull, M., Soria, R., & Motch, C. (2010) A 300-parsec-long jet-inflated bubble around a powerful microquasar in the galaxy NGC 7793. Nature, 466(7303), 209-212. DOI: 10.1038/nature09168
Pohl, R., Antognini, A., Nez, F., Amaro, F., Biraben, F., Cardoso, J., Covita, D., Dax, A., Dhawan, S., Fernandes, L.... (2010) The size of the proton. Nature, 466(7303), 213-216. DOI: 10.1038/nature09250
John Swain. (2010) Black Holes and the Strong CP Problem. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.1097v2
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What have people been talking about this week in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity?
Sorry for the very half-assed post, it’s midnight in Mexico City and it was a long day at GR19.... Read more »
Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Nader Haghighipour, & Stefano Meschiari. (2010) The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Uranus-mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.4244v1
Kreckel, H., Bruhns, H., Cizek, M., Glover, S., Miller, K., Urbain, X., & Savin, D. (2010) Experimental Results for H2 Formation from H- and H and Implications for First Star Formation. Science, 329(5987), 69-71. DOI: 10.1126/science.1187191
Michel-Dansac, L., Duc, P., Bournaud, F., Cuillandre, J., Emsellem, E., Oosterloo, T., Morganti, R., Serra, P., & Ibata, R. (2010) A COLLISIONAL ORIGIN FOR THE LEO RING. The Astrophysical Journal, 717(2). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/2/L143
Eisenhardt, P., Griffith, R., Stern, D., Wright, E., Ashby, M., Brodwin, M., Brown, M., Bussmann, R., Dey, A., Ghez, A.... (2010) ULTRACOOL FIELD BROWN DWARF CANDIDATES SELECTED AT 4.5 μm. The Astronomical Journal, 139(6), 2455-2464. DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/6/2455
Hüdepohl, L., Müller, B., Janka, H., Marek, A., & Raffelt, G. (2010) Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling. Physical Review Letters, 104(25). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.251101
Andersson, N. (2010) Gravity: Trying to catch the wave. Nature Physics, 6(7), 484-485. DOI: 10.1038/nphys1723
Pfrommer, C., & Jonathan Dursi, L. (2010) Detecting the orientation of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Nature Physics, 6(7), 520-526. DOI: 10.1038/nphys1657
Mendoza, M., Boghosian, B., Herrmann, H., & Succi, S. (2010) Fast Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Relativistic Hydrodynamics. Physical Review Letters, 105(1). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.014502
Luis Lehner, & Frans Pretorius. (2010) Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.5960v1
Jonathan J. Heckman, & Cumrun Vafa. (2010) An Exceptional Sector for F-theory GUTs. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.5459v1
by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics
What have people been talking about this week in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity, and a little bit of quantum mechanics?... Read more »
Lyne, A., Hobbs, G., Kramer, M., Stairs, I., & Stappers, B. (2010) Switched Magnetospheric Regulation of Pulsar Spin-Down. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1186683
H. Rampadarath, M. A. Garrett, G. I. G. Józsa, T. Muxlow, T. A. Oosterloo, Z. Paragi1, R. Beswick, H. van Arkel, W. C. Keel, & K. Schawinski. (2010) Hanny's Voorwerp: Evidence of AGN activity and a nuclear starburst in the central regions of IC 2497. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.4096v1
Norbert Przybilla, Alfred Tillich, Ulrich Heber, & Ralf-Dieter Scholz. (2010) Weighing the Galactic dark matter halo: a lower mass limit from the fastest halo star known. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.5026v1
Andresen, G., Bertsche, W., Bowe, P., Bray, C., Butler, E., Cesar, C., Chapman, S., Charlton, M., Fajans, J., & Fujiwara, M. (2010) Antihydrogen formation dynamics in a multipolar neutral anti-atom trap. Physics Letters B, 685(2-3), 141-145. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.066
Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, & Ofer Lahav. (2010) Upper bound of 0.28 eV on neutrino masses from the largest photometric redshift survey. |Physical Review Letters. info:/
The CDMS II Collaboration. (2010) Dark Matter Search Results from the CDMS II Experiment. Science, 327(5973), 1619-1621. DOI: 10.1126/science.1186112
Tarun Biswas. (2010) Through the Black Hole -- On Not Breaking Time Reversal Symmetry. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.4185v1
A. Garrett Lisi. (2010) An Explicit Embedding of Gravity and the Standard Model in E8. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.4908v1
Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, & Vladan Vuletić. (2010) Orientation-Dependent Entanglement Lifetime in a Squeezed Atomic Clock. Physical Review Letters. info:/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.250801
Schultze, M., Fiess, M., Karpowicz, N., Gagnon, J., Korbman, M., Hofstetter, M., Neppl, S., Cavalieri, A., Komninos, Y., Mercouris, T.... (2010) Delay in Photoemission. Science, 328(5986), 1658-1662. DOI: 10.1126/science.1189401
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T. van Zoest, N. Gaaloul, Y. Singh, H. Ahlers, W. Herr, S. T. Seidel, W. Ertmer, E. Rasel, M. Eckart, E. Kajari, S. Arnold, G. Nandi, W. P. Schleich, R. Walser, A. Vogel, K. Sengstock, K. Bongs, W. Lewoczko-Adamczyk, M. Schiemangk, T. Schuldt, A. Peters, . (2010) Bose-Einstein Condensation in Microgravity. Science , 328(5985), 1540-1543. info:/10.1126/science.1189164
Andrea Mehner, Kris Davidson, Roberta M. Humphreys, John C. Martin, Kazunori Ishibashi, Gary J. Ferland, & Nolan R. Walborn. (2010) A Sea Change in Eta Carinae. arXiv. arXiv: 1004.3529v3
Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Patrick J. Fox, & Adam Martin. (2010) CP violation in B_s mixing from heavy Higgs exchange. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.4238v2
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Christophe Ringeval, Teruaki Suyama, Tomo Takahashi, Masahide Yamaguchi, & Shuichiro Yokoyama. (2010) Dark energy from primordial inflationary quantum fluctuations. arXiv. arXiv: 1006.0368v1
U. Sawangwit, & T. Shanks. (2009) Beam profile sensitivity of the WMAP CMB power spectrum. arXiv. arXiv: 0912.0524v2
Feldman, D., Liu, Z., Nath, P., & Peim, G. (2010) Multicomponent dark matter in supersymmetric hidden sector extensions. Physical Review D, 81(9). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.095017
K. S. Cheng, Yun-Wei Yu, & T. Harko. (2010) High Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observational Signatures of Superconducting Cosmic Strings?. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.3427v2
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This is part two in The Language of Science series.
An interesting, and very common, element in the scientist’s (and especially the mathematician’s) vocabulary is the adjective “general”, or, perhaps more interestingly, the idiomatic form of “generally”, “in general”.... Read more »
Aranha, R., & Soares, I. (2010) Mass-energy radiative transfer and momentum extraction by gravitational wave emission in the collision of two black holes. Physical Review D, 81(10). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.104005
Gralla, S., Harte, A., & Wald, R. (2010) Bobbing and kicks in electromagnetism and gravity. Physical Review D, 81(10). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.104012
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This is the first post in a new weekly series looking at what is making the (science) news in high energy physics, astrophysics, gravitation, general relativity and quantum gravity, and, perhaps more importantly, do the stories mean what we think they mean.
What have people been talking about this week?... Read more »
Rochau, B., Brandner, W., Stolte, A., Gennaro, M., Gouliermis, D., Da Rio, N., Dzyurkevich, N., & Henning, T. (2010) INTERNAL DYNAMICS AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE NGC 3603 YOUNG CLUSTER FROM MICROARCSECOND ASTROMETRY. The Astrophysical Journal, 716(1). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/716/1/L90
Evans, C., Walborn, N., Crowther, P., Hénault-Brunet, V., Massa, D., Taylor, W., Howarth, I., Sana, H., Lennon, D., & van Loon, J. (2010) A MASSIVE RUNAWAY STAR FROM 30 DORADUS. The Astrophysical Journal, 715(2). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/715/2/L74
D. Batcheldor, A. Robinson, D. J. Axon, E. S. Perlman, & D. Merritt. (2010) A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.2173v1
Hammer, N., Janka, H., & Müller, E. (2010) THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS OF MIXING INSTABILITIES IN SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS. The Astrophysical Journal, 714(2), 1371-1385. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/714/2/1371
Garofalo, D., Evans, D., & Sambruna, R. (2010) The evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei as a function of black hole spin. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16797.x
Meng Su, Tracy R. Slatyer, & Douglas P. Finkbeiner. (2010) Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles from Fermi-LAT: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind?. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.5480v1
Kanekar, N., Chengalur, J., & Ghosh, T. (2010) PROBING FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT EVOLUTION WITH REDSHIFTED CONJUGATE-SATELLITE OH LINES. The Astrophysical Journal, 716(1). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/716/1/L23
The D0 Collaboration, & V. M. Abazov. (2010) Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry. arXiv. arXiv: 1005.2757v1
Eder Izaguirre, Michael Manhart, & Jay G. Wacker. (2010) Bigger, Better, Faster, More at the LHC. arXiv. arXiv: 1003.3886v1
Gale, C. (2010) Taking the temperature of extreme matter. Physics. DOI: 10.1103/Physics.3.28
Kribs, G., Roy, T., Terning, J., & Zurek, K. (2010) Quirky composite dark matter. Physical Review D, 81(9). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.095001
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Anyone who has seriously studied an empirical or mathematical science knows there is something very special about how those studies affect the way we view the world. There is something very profound feeling in the way our minds works after we’ve been exposed to logical and testable systems, and it enters into almost [...]... Read more »
Leshner, A. (2005) Redefining Science. Science, 309(5732), 221-221. DOI: 10.1126/science.1116621
Steinhardt, P. (2002) A Cyclic Model of the Universe. Science, 296(5572), 1436-1439. DOI: 10.1126/science.1070462
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Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the life and achievements of women in science and technology through blogging in the name of Ada Byron – Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, analyst, metaphysician, the founder of scientific computing, and The Enchantress of Numbers.
In honour of Ada Lovelace Day, I’ll briefly profile the life [...]... Read more »
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