Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95 Sep 13, 2009
His father, Niels Bohr, who was a colleague and close friend of Albert Einstein, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for nuclear research in 1922. The institute named after his father where Aage Bohr was a professor of physics said Thursday that Bohr died Tuesday. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Aage Bohr; physics professor received Nobel prize; at 87 Sep 11, 2009
His father, Niels Bohr, who was a colleague and close friend of Albert Einstein, received the Nobel Prize in physics for nuclear research in 1922. The institute named after his father and where Aage Bohr was a professor of physics said yesterday that Mr. Bohr died Tuesday. (Boston Globe)
Bern's Einstein Haus Museum Sep 7, 2009
Albert Einstein Haus is Interesting for Everyone ... Inside the Albert Einstein Haus Museum. (Suite101.com)
Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Of Gravitational Physics Sep 2, 2009
Bending of starlight by gravity was predicted by Albert Einstein when he published his theory of General Relativity in 1916. According to relativity theory, the strong gravity of a massive object such as the Sun produces curvature in the nearby space, which alters the path of light or radio waves passing near the object. (Science Daily)
Vanquishing Infinity: Old Methods Lead To New Approach To Finding Quantum Theory Of Gravity Aug 22, 2009
(July 16, 2009) In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein. (Science Daily)
Echoes Of The Birth Of The Universe Aug 20, 2009
The existence of the waves was predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 in his general theory of relativity ... 9, 2007) Albert Einstein theorized that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. (Science Daily)
Rethinking Brownian Motion With The 'Emperor's New Clothes' Jul 29, 2009
Called "Brownian motion" (after botanist Robert Brown, who noticed it in 1828), this phenomenon of fluids was described by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he published his statistical molecular theory of liquids. According to Einstein, if the motions of many particles were watched, and the distance each moved in a certain time were recorded, the distribution would resemble the familiar Gaussian, bell-shaped curve used to assign grades in a science class. (Science Daily)
Quantum Measurements: Common Sense Is Not Enough, Physicists Show Jul 23, 2009
In 1935 already, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen questioned whether quantum mechanics theory is complete in the sense of a realistic physical theory a criticism that is now well know in the scientific world as the EPR paradox. In the mid 1960s, John Bell showed that quantum theory cannot be a real and at the same time local theory, which, in the meantime, has also been proven experimentally. (Science Daily)
Kyoto and the Stern Review of Climate Change Jul 22, 2009
When many persons see or maybe just hear about the mathematics employed by Frank Ramsay and Lord Stern, they tend to draw the conclusion that it is in the same category as that employed by Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton. My comment on this situation is that this is precisely what is wrong with academic economics at the present time. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Surprises from General Relativity: Swimming in Spacetime Jul 21, 2009
In Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity, gravity arises from spacetime being curved. Today, 90 years after Einstein developed the theory s equations, physicists are still uncovering new surprises in them. (Scientific American)
Testing Relativity, Black Holes In The Lab Jul 21, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2009) Even Albert Einstein might have been impressed ... 4, 2005) European astronomers succeeded for the first time to confirm the signatures predicted near Black Holes by Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity in the light of the cosmic X-ray background ... (July 16, 2009) In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. (Science Daily)
Linking Quantum Physics With Classical Physics: Basis Of Einstein's First Approximation In The Theory Of Relativity Investigated Jul 17, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 16, 2009) In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein apparently never had the opportunity to check his original approximation. (Science Daily)
Three Great Physics Theories Jul 16, 2009
Albert Einstein proposed this significant theory in the early 20th century. Einstein himself did not introduce the relativity concept, but he recognized that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum and an absolute physical boundary for motion. (Suite101.com)
Quantum Computers And Tossing A Coin In The Microcosm Jul 14, 2009
7, 2007) Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast. (May 6, 2008) For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. (Science Daily)
Quantum Mechanical Effects In Ordinary Objects Jun 23, 2009
dinger's famed cat to be simultaneously alive and dead; matter can be "entangled" Albert Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance" such that one thing influences another thing, regardless of how far apart the two are. See also. (Science Daily)
MSNBC Publishes Free Online Abridgment of 'Biocentrism' Jun 17, 2009
June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- MSNBC.com featured today Dr. Robert Lanza's book (co-authored with leading astronomer Bob Berman) Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe on its National Academies award-winning site "Cosmic Log." The article by Science Editor Alan Boyle includes an exclusive online abridgment of the book based on Lanza's essay A New Theory of the Universe which appeared in The American Scholar, a leading intellectual journal... (PR Newswire)
Caltech scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals Jun 16, 2009
Since Guillaume's discoverywhich, in 1920, earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics (besting Albert Einstein, who was awarded the prize in 1921)other nonexpanding alloys have been identified. It has long been known that Invar behavior is caused by unusual changes in the magnetic properties of the alloys that somehow cancel out the thermal expansion of the material. (EurekAlert!)
Goal: Developing The Best Atomic Clock In The World Jun 5, 2009
It is already a prime example of good cooperation between completely different but perfectly complementary partners: Next to PTB as the state research institute of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) with its special knowledge in the field of metrology, i.e. precise measurement technologies, there are six institutes from the Leibniz University of Hannover, the Laser Zentrum Hannover, the German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 in Ruthe, the Center of Applied Space Technology and... (Science Daily)
Bridging the gap to quantum world Jun 4, 2009
It also implies that the behaviour of two separate objects is linked by some unseen connection - an idea that Albert Einstein described as "spooky action". Entanglement could be exploited in future quantum computers, because the inherent probability-based nature of quantum systems means they can compute certain kinds of problems significantly more quickly than current "classical" computers. (BBC News -- Science)
Enjoying the view from the top of the class May 31, 2009
Web Search powered by YAHOO. com The Athens Banner-Herald presents the area valedictorians and salutatorians of the Class of 2009. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Nurturing nonbelief: Parents gather to talk about raising kids without religion May 28, 2009
timothy wrote on May 27, 2009 2:39 PM:" Stephen Hawking: We should be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God. Albert Einstein: Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man. I want to know how... (Winona Daily News, MN)
Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics May 27, 2009
Unfortunately, when experiments are carried out at room temperature the smallest amount of heat present will agitate the mirrors; a century ago Albert Einstein demonstrated the relation between fluctuations ("Brownian motion") brought about by thermal energy. H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech will describe a new effort to counteract thermal noise and improve the sensitivity of interferometers. (EurekAlert!)
Herbert Frank York, nuclear physicist, dies May 23, 2009
That led to work on the Manhattan Project - a top-secret team that was directed by Robert J. Oppenheimer and included Albert Einstein - which developed the first atomic bomb. At the time, Allied forces were in a desperate race to develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Fast Laser Research And Theory Building On Einsten's Work By Timing Electrons Emissions May 23, 2009
ScienceDaily (May 22, 2009) Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein. See also. (Science Daily)
K-State's fast laser research and theory building on Einsten's work by timing electrons emissions May 22, 2009
Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his theoretical explanation in 1905 of the so-called photo-effect -- that is, the emission of electrons from a metal surface by incident light. (EurekAlert!)
Century of Einstein May 21, 2009
View a photographic timeline spanning the life of Albert Einstein. more photos. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Chicago in the News May 15, 2009
The article stated that Nambu survived service in the Imperial Army in Japan to arrive at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, where he met Albert Einstein. Einstein s unfulfilled goal was to find a unified field theory tying together the forces of nature, a problem that Nambu tackled with his theories. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Quantum Mechanics: Uncertainty Principle Used To Detect Entanglement Of Photon Shared Among Four Locations May 13, 2009
7, 2007) Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast. . (Science Daily)
The Day The Universe Froze May 11, 2009
According to quantum theory, empty space is filled with pairs of "virtual particles that spontaneously pop into and out of existence too quickly to be detected. This sub-atomic activity is a logical source for dark energy because both are spread uniformly throughout space. This distribution is consistent with evidence that the average density of dark energy has remained constant as the universe has expanded. This characteristic is in direct contrast to ordinary matter and energy, which become... (Science Daily)
How to raise a two-year-old genius May 5, 2009
With an IQ of 156, the two-year-old girl tested just below Albert Einstein, who had an IQ of 160. She joins such wunderkinds as Georgia Brown, who joined British Mensa in 2007 at 2 years old with an IQ of 152, and Mikhail Ali, who joined in 2005 at three years old with an IQ of 137. (Globe and Mail)
World first for strange molecule Apr 28, 2009
Page last updated at 10:54 GMT, Thursday, 23 April 2009 11:54 UK. By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News. (BBC News -- Science)
Nigeria: Obama and the Muslim World [I] Apr 18, 2009
Albert Einstein was acting the harlot of science in his undisguised solicitation of a powerful consenting partner-US President Franklin Roosevelt; and, like all illicit affairs, this liaison was arranged in the dark by middlemen-acquaintances. This is no diatribe against knowledge: nuclear physics is a legitimate field of inquiry and nuclear power a thing to be exploited; but the manufacture of nuclear bombs should be recognized and treated for what it is-a crime against humanity. (allAfrica.com)
A 'Humble' attempt to weave physics and art Apr 10, 2009
McElvain researched geniuses such as Albert Einstein and physicist Richard Feynman while preparing for the role of Galileo, but he decided to try something a little different for this production. "I want to make Galileo Italian," he says. (Boston Globe)
Martin Klein, at 84; editor of Einstein papers collection Apr 5, 2009
NEW YORK - Martin J. Klein, a historian of modern physics and the editor of a vast collection of papers that documented the years in which Albert Einstein completed his revolutionary work on the general theory of relativity, died March 28 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 84 and lived in Chapel Hill ... Dr. Klein, originally a physicist, was editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" (Princeton University Press) from 1988 to 1998. (Boston Globe)
New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars Mar 25, 2009
Einstein@Home, based at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects ... For the Einstein@Home project, data are sent to the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover via high-bandwidth internet links, pre-processed and then distributed to computers around the world ... The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is the largest research... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Holy photons Mar 25, 2009
Originated in work conducted by Max Planck and Albert Einstein at start of 20th Century They discovered that light comes in discrete packets, or quanta, which we call photons The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle says certain features of subatomic particles like momentum and position cannot be known precisely at the same time Gaps remain, like attempts to find the 'God Particle' that scientists hope to spot in the Large Hadron Collider. It is required to give other particles mass. (BBC News -- Science)
Tone of online talk regretful Mar 21, 2009
"The only think more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." - Albert Einstein. There sure is a lot of arrogance among those AGW "zealots" " desertique wrote on Mar 20, 2009 5:20 PM:" Bluto. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
How to become filthy rich Mar 17, 2009
Albert Einstein, not shy in the brains department, claimed that compound interest was 'the greatest mathematical discovery of all time. But you don't need to be as intelligent as Einstein to understand the concept, and thats the beauty of it. (iAfrica.com)
Show will go on on Steve Martins dime Mar 16, 2009
The 1993 play imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of great achievements in painting and physics. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Martin to US troupe: Show will go on, on my dime Mar 15, 2009
The 1993 play imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of great achievements in painting and physics. It is aimed at explaining "the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science," Martin said in the letter published Friday in The La Grande Observer. (International Herald Tribune)
* World News Quick Take Mar 8, 2009
The doctorate certificate that Albert Einstein obtained from the University of Zurich in 1906 will come up for auction in June, auctioneers Fischer Galerie said on Friday. An honorary doctorate certificate awarded to the physicist by the University of Geneva in 1909 will also come under the hammer, the Lucerne-based auctioneer said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Book Buzz: Womens History Month Mar 4, 2009
Inspired by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo s daughter, a cloistered nun, Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called the father of modern physics indeed of modern science altogether. The book also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Gravitational Lensing: Einsteins Telescope Feb 22, 2009
Although based on Albert Einstein s general theory of relativity, the effect is easily demonstrated ... 2, 1998) A team of British astronomers using the UK's MERLIN radio array and the Hubble Space Telescope have found an ``Einstein Ring'' - a gravitational effect predicted by Albert Einstein over. (Science Daily)
Viewpoint: Let us not forget a giant Feb 19, 2009
After reviewing Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity and the observations of astronomer Edwin Hubble, Lema. tre realized that the theoretical model and the astronomical observations were entirely consistent with one another. (Danvers Herald, MA)
A great symphonic journey Feb 12, 2009
In his book On The Shoulders of Giants, renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking reviews the work of past masters of physics such as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, noting his own achievements were possible only because he was "standing on the shoulders of giants". And so in the world of music too. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
Holographic Universe: Discovery Could Herald New Era In Fundamental Physics Feb 7, 2009
GEO600 is a joint project of scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, or AEI), Leibniz Universit ... Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) ... 9, 2007) Albert Einstein theorized that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. (Science Daily)
