-
RSS Links
Categories
Archives
-
Recent Comments
- American Football NFL ยป New England Patriots Take Care of Their … | New England Patriots NFL Announcer on Six Nations 2010 – Match 11 – Scotland vs. England
- Chris Meiklejohn on Using Spruchnummer to crack Lorenz
- Sandra Corbett on Kangaroo Meat
- Murk on Person of Indian Origin
- craggs on Person of Indian Origin
Tag Archives: Physics
Large Hadron Collider
The LHC at Cern will be switched on today, though there won’t be collisions for a little while.
The LHC will collide Hadrons (obviously) at high speeds. Hadrons are particles which contain quarks. Everyday examples are Protons and Neutrons. The LHC can only accelerate charged particles and so it’ll collide protons. The high energy collisions will [...]
The Antikythera Mechanism
There is a fascinating video on the Nature website about the Antikythera Mechanism (link to Nature letter). Here’s another video on the topic.
Posted in History, Science Also tagged Astronomy, engineering, Greece, History, Science Leave a comment
Zero G Dog
Following Stephen Hawking’s recent flight, and seeing this clip on HIGNFY, I had to track down the clip online.
How to Destroy the Earth
An amusing little documentary about ‘How to Destroy the Earth’ – and it’s all factually correct (if silly).
One thing, with an anti-mountain, crashing it into the Earth from space isn’t going to be a major factor – just being on Earth will do it. Admittedly though, the anti-mountain would have to be manufactured away [...]
Quantum Cryptography (a background)
This post is part of a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift, the latest post in the series is Letter Groups.