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The big event of the softball season, the Women's College World Series, begins Thursday. One aspect I find interesting is that many of the dominant pitchers are very tall. Many of you are probably familiar with the underhand delivery of fastpitch softball, which implicates angular motion. The...

I don't know if this will help answer your original question, but here's a recent Cornell University news release about the research of a professor who studies gravity waves: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/Flanagan.gravity.TO.html

I don't believe I ever said not winning a Nobel Prize makes one a bad physicist. My motivation was purely to correct the record of this thread, so that the information conveyed can be as accurate as possible.

There's also a new book coming out entitled Fearless Symmetry: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691124922/?tag=pfamazon01-20 One other note -- Howard Georgi has never won a Nobel Prize in Physics http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/index.html

Today's New York Times has an article on the question of why ice is a skatable surface. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/science/21ice.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 (registration required)

To supplement my figure-skating write-up, I've now added a collection of links on the physics of other Winter Olympic sports, such as luge, hockey, and skiing. I hope that my webpage shows up properly for most of you. It looks OK to me. I know that on different browsers and different...

A more concise, though not comprehensive, list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mesons

I maintain a blog where I write about physics for a general audience, and I wanted to let everyone know about my latest entry, which is on the physics of figure skating. With the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics only a week away, I thought it might be fun to collect links related to...

I have a website called Watered Down Physics, where I -- a non-physicist -- try to explain physics concepts for a general audience. I do a lot of reading in physics and the entries on my webpage represent my distillation of this material. Because I'm not a trained physicist, I make sure to...

My dictionary gives two definitions of anniversary, both a purely chronological one and the celebration one. I meant the former.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein

my new website: "watered down physics" I would like to invite everyone -- particularly those on the novice side -- to visit my new website: http://watered-down-physics.blogspot.com/ I am not a physicist (I'm a professor at Texas Tech University in the social sciences), but I really enjoy...

Did anyone catch the show? Greene and Letterman seemed to have a nice banter for probably 7-8 minutes. Letterman asked about topics that one would reasonably associate with physics (e.g., Einstein, what science has to say about the origin of the universe). I think it was when Greene was...

Another potentially useful book is The Quantum Quark by Andrew Watson.

Brian Greene is scheduled to appear on tonight's Late Show with David Letterman on CBS (11:30 Eastern & Pacific, 10:30 Central). http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/show_info/