A double entendre post on the Higgs Boson: "Ender's Game."
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"That Used To Be Us" (redux)...: There was a commentary on Physics Today that the German economy is far superior to ours, and that part of their controversial means was the temerity to use GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT!
See once you read my essay if you see the dangerousness of the "silly season" our politics may bring, and the real possibility of a science denier succeeding President Obama. It could even sensor speculative fiction if it doesn't fit the dogma.
Vibrations + Electrons = "Phoniton": this research proposes a new way to form a hybrid quantum entity (gotta love theorists) called a “phoniton,” a particle that combines a phonon—the quantum form of vibrations—with a matter excitation, such as an electron that transits between two levels.
I had fun also posting The Black Panther series embed (Reginald Hudlin produced and directed it). T'Challa - the name of the king of the mythical Wakanda nation - apparently goes back 3,000 years. It means "the one," and is given to each successive king of a dynasty. I guess Marvel took license, since his father's name was T'Chaka, which has no meaning at all. "Chaka" -- on the other hand -- means "life" in Arabic/Hebrew.
The Black Panther was the first black modern super hero, even before Luke Cage: Hero for Hire.
Electronics From Your Ink-Jet is a post regarding the usage of carbon nanotubes in the manufacture of thin films (like the one behind your smart phone).
An essay I posted yesterday: Aquarius at Noonday. An observation born of my experience as a physics & math teacher; as previously a process, device, manufacturing and product engineer. I consider myself -- a man of a 'certain age' -- one of Sputnik's Children. My fear is this generation's Sputnik moment may be [to use a track metaphor] after the gun, 40 meters to the rear of the rest of the globe, just getting out of the blocks.
Black Hole Cygnus X-1 is a double-star system (really, the majority of black holes are found as such systems, literally one collapsed star cannibalizing the other). I have a link to Space.com and a video embed from You Tube at the link above.
The term "black hole" was coined by John A. Wheeler, while a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Read more on Dr. Wheeler in this NY Times article on his epitaph.
One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, "I want to be a poet--not a Negro poet," meaning, I believe, "I want to write like a white poet"; meaning subconsciously, "I would like to be a white poet"; meaning behind that, "I would like to be white." And I was sorry the young man said that, for no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself. And I doubted then that, with his desire to run away spiritually from his race, this boy would ever be a great poet. But this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America--this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
[Last sentence]: We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, 'free within ourselves.'
More at: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, Langston Hughes
1926, The Nation, Courtesy of University of Illinois English Department
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