Recent content by mankin2006

Hi, I'm an international student from Malaysia and I recently got accepted to UMass Amherst majoring in Physics for my Bachelors Degree. Should I: 1. Accept the offer and transfer to a better school (if I get the chance). or 2. Major in Computer Science in a local university that has...

as in high energy physics like this one, http://www.Newton.ac.uk/programmes/BSM/index.html

Oh man, that's got to hurt

Physics being the most fundamental of the three disciples of the sciences, reflects everything from how matter works to the system of nature. I believe mathematics is the language of nature, and so far every concept in physics can be derived from simple formulae to complex formulae with...

Hence it must be elegant, when think of something that is elegant say like a thread of silk, you see it as a smooth, undeterred, silver line - ever continuous, ever elegant. That's how good theories are, they are smooth and deterministic ; they could describe something that is beyond our...

"Bob and Alice" why them? I know it's pretty random if I asked about this , but, why do physicists ( whenever they come up with a thought experiment that includes two or more individuals) use the names : Bob and Alice Once you think about it, it seems to be eccentric that they used Bob and...

Can't agree more