Category: Fightin’

The Zeroth Theorem in the history of physics states that a discovery named after an individual often did not originate with that person. It may be pompous and contrived (and let’s face, who ain’t?) but the zeroth theorem is surely worth a post since David “Orc” Jackson from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has done…

This ain’t as silly a question as it sounds. Almost 15 years ago a group at Berkeley raced photons down two tracks of identical length. One track was a straight line through a vacuum; the other was the same except for a barrier that the photons had to tunnel through to reach their destination. Believe…

“The traditional realm of astronomy is the observation and study of the largest objects in the Universe, while the traditional domain of high-energy physics is the study of the smallest things in nature. But these two sciences concerned with opposite ends of the size spectrum are…bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be…