Physics and Physicists

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Sunday, August 16, 2026

Imaging the Milky Way

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If you missed it, I posted how I have gotten into astrophotography lately ever since I got a smart telescope earlier this year. One of the ...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Are Quasiparticles Real?

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I'm posting this because someone here (@dougnatelson) can respond to this. This is based on this article that asks if quasiparticle are...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Entanglement and Experiment

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The AIP has produced one of the most informative historical account of the history of quantum entanglement after EPR, especially on its deve...
Friday, March 20, 2026

ChatGPT Is Still Not Very Good With Sketching

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I gave this prompt to ChatGPT: Sketch an object moving in a circular path, showing the tangential velocity at 4 different points along its p...
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Astrophotgraphy - As If I Need A New Hobby

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I got the new Dwarf Mini smart telescope for my birthday this year. I never had a desire for a telescope before even though images of these ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

ChatGPT and Gemini Can't Do Real Physics Research

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A rather interesting post on AI's ability to actually do real physics research that beginning graduate students are expected to do. Mor...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

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It's unusual that a Nobel Prize in Physics is given to physicists working in the field that was the same as my PhD research work. It f i...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

A Century of Quantum Mechanics

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CERN Courier has a special issue this month celebrating what they consider as the 100th anniversary of Quantum Mechanics. Of course, the fo...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Another Sighting of a Possible Fifth Force?

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First of all, I'm old! I started being in a student in physics since the early 1980's (do your own math). During all of that time wh...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

A Century of Bose-Einstein Condensation

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Nature has published a wonderful review of the discovery and progress that we have made in understanding BE condensation since its discover...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Did I Expect Too Much?

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In one of my exam questions, I gave the students the average radius of Earth's orbit around the Sun at 150 million km. I told them that ...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

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I mentioned earlier of an article on the Davisson-Germer's experiment as part of the commemoration of 100 anniversary of Quantum Mechan...
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