Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Two Perspectives on J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Like the two images in a stereoscope, the subject is the same person in both views. The source materials are largely the same.  American Pro...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

MERRY NEWTONMAS 2025

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Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642. Following the Gregorian calendar, Newtonmas would be on January 4. One advantage to keeping...
Monday, April 19, 2021

To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg

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Write about what you know. Write from your experience. Those two mandates are easily given to anyone who wants to write for a living. They a...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Merry Newtonmas 2019

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Born on December 25 (OS), 1642, Sir Issac Newton was more than the most brilliant man of his time. He was the first modern scientist. He di...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Physics for Astronomers: The Works of Steven Weinberg

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The telescope is a wonderful instrument, but if you do not know what you are looking at, you have not gained much. The stars are pretty at ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

STEVEN WEINBERG ON GRAVITY WAVES

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On Friday night, July 12, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg was the guest speaker at the monthly Austin Astronomy Club meeting. His topic was...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent

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This is an inspired little book with a lot of problems. I pulled it from the stacks at my city library neighborhood branch because I wanted ...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Simply Dirac by Helge Kragh

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac predicted the existence of the positron and the magnetic monopole. He received a Nobel Prize in 1933. Born in 190...