Archive for the 'physics' Category

University of Nottingham site featuring "videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy."

"It turns out that virtually every tree that was alive starting in 1954 has a "spike" — an atomic bomb souvenir."

I'm admittedly somewhat late to the party here, and nowhere on this list will you find "taking a break for a few months because we broke it", but for all I know this is a nice rundown of the sorts of things we might expect to be discovered or confirmed by the LHC.

If this thing does birth a small black hole and swallow up the earth, it might just have been worth it just for these pictures.

Samples of the sound of "singing / roaring / booming" dunes. Very low frequency sound produced by localized dune avalanches, with accompanying explanation, sound samples and historical instances. Amazing.

As in all the best nerdfights, we were of course both right. Step 3: Profit.