Browsing Archive: October, 2017

A Cosmic Collision

Posted by on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, In : Astronomy 
There was an interesting joint announcement today from the LIGO, Virgo, and Fermi telescope teams, and one that will have great value to the astrophysics community. For the first time, all three simultaneously detected a neutron star collision and were able to collect data regarding both its gravitational wave signature and its gamma-ray signature. This new data will provide for interesting new studies on the physics of neutron stars and on the origin of several heavier elements in the Univer...
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And The Prize Goes To...

Posted by on Tuesday, October 3, 2017,
The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics was announced today, and as expected it was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne their work in developing the LIGO experiment that recently made the first detection of a gravitational wave. The experiment itself was an amazing piece of engineering, and its ability to detect and study gravitational waves is going to make it a very important tool in the future for understanding the Universe.

Just over a century ago Einstein published the general t...
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Nobel Predictions 2017

Posted by on Tuesday, October 3, 2017,
Once again we are at the most important week of the year for the scientific community, the week of the Nobel Prize announcements. This year there are a few serious contenders for the physics prize, and they all involve very interesting fields of research.

The leading candidate for the prize this year is probably the LIGO experiment, which last year detected the first gravitational waves. Since then they have confirmed the detection with two more gravitational waves and just recently detected t...
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The Nobel Prize

Posted by on Monday, October 2, 2017,
It is that time of year again - the week of the Nobel Prize announcements!

As usual, there is a significant amount of discussion and debate in the scientific community as to who will receive this year's prizes. And also as so often happens, there is no clear frontrunner for the prize this year.

Before I start making predictions though, I must take a moment to make clear who will not be winning. After last year's predictions I received a few communications from people who were unhappy that their...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   


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