» physics Zeitgeistland: Once more unto the breach…

Posted in February 22nd, 2008

Talk like a physicist. Yes, and why not? Here is a website that celebrates doing such a thing, and proudly, too! Oh, and don’t forget ‘Talk Like a Physicist Day’, which is March 14th, 2008. Why March 14th? It’s Einstein’s birthday, of course!

Talk Like a Physicist

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We Know Dark Energy, Therefore Our Doom?

Posted in November 27th, 2007

Ok, this stuff is pretty far out there, but, why not think about it? And of course, a good handful of scientists do. This article relates, and very well I might add, the details of a paper concerning the observation of dark energy and its possible effect on cosmology, the fate of the Universe. The authors apparently try to extend the concept of power-law metastable quantum states, proven to be correct over exponential ones in the 1950s, to quantum field theory. The paper isn’t peer-reviewed, but a copy can be found on the following link