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That version is dated. This one includes Occam and Mach, and has a better ending by Newton: The Great Physicists' Road Trip by Ms. Rachel C. Millison Great physicists and a few of their friends from the past decide to return to Earth for one last road-trip vacation to the coast together. They...

Great physicists from the past decide to return to Earth for one last road-trip vacation to the coast together. They all appear on Earth on the designated evening. Heisenberg pulls up behind the wheel of a gigantic 1930's car, a huge grin on his face. As they're getting in the car, Hubble looks...

I have a cursory understanding of QM which (as far as I know) fails to provide causation for certain events such as neutron decay and electron leaps to lower orbits. My understanding is that there is (currently) no know "cause" for these, and other, events - they simply happen. We cannot, for...

There are a good number of very fundamental principles that underlie physics (conservation of information, principal of parsimony, time invariance, symmetry, etc.) that don't seem to be listed in modern physics textbooks. Are they codified somewhere?

It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame...

One Young-Earth Creationist says to another "Which is closer - the Moon or Mexico"? The other points at the Moon and replies "The Moon - Duh! You can't see Mexico from here".

Flying usually infers the generation of lift and bullets don't. Bullets actually wobble, more than they fly.

I'm watching a fascinating video about DNA replication: Can someone explain briefly what the mechanism of action (and locomotion) is for all these little machines? Is it simply electric potential (due to ionization?) ? Thanks

Now that computes! Thanks

:-O Simple answers appreciated!

Higgs Confusion (The Higgs "Era") I thought I understood the basic concepts behind the Higgs mechanism (spontaneous symmetry breaking and such). But I've read a couple of sources that talk about the "Higgs Era" - the period shortly after the BB when the U was still hot/dense enough for the...

From what I hear, A PhD from a top Physics school and lots of contacts (it's who you know). :smile:

BSEE, MS Systems Engineering. Unemployed.

Maybe PF should develop a groupthink script and do our own animation.