Archive for the ‘Physics’ Category

The Carbon Footprint of “Green” Goods?

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia According to pretty much every possible news outlet, Toyota will be adding solar panels to their Prius line of hybric cars. One thing that bugs me in all of these so called "green" goods is that there is no mention of the emissions from the manufacture of such ...

New Theory on Existence of the Universe - Is It All Just Math?

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Discover Magazine has an interesting article about new theory of the Universe by Swedish born cosmologist Max Tegmark. Tegmark argues that the Universe is actually made of mathematics! This might feel just a bit far fetched idea for anyone accustomed to the conventional physics. However, Tegmark presents an ...

Excellent Series on Quantum Physics

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Overcoming Bias, the blog from Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, has an excellent series on one of my favourite subjects: quantum physics. The main point of the series is making out a more comprehensible view on the subject, as quantum physics is usually regarded as extremely difficult. The point ...

New quantum applications in optics

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Scientific American has had a couple of articles involving optics and quantum mechanics that seem quite interesting. First, a group of researchers in University of St. Andrews in Scotland, have come up with a way to create tiny artificial black holes using optical fibers and carefully aligned light pulses of ...

The tipping point, entropy, Swarzchild radius and quantum fluctuations

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything as this blog was not meant as an active outlet for my excess toughts. However, I may have to change my ways as my amount of input vs. amount of output ratio is rapidly approaching infinity. As a more educated reader ...