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IBM - an apology (and some really neat physics!)
Blog I didn't understand the key aspect of the physics involved - so, if you're sitting comfortably, it's time for Fun With Photons. Now, one of the fortuitous facts of physics is that silicon is transparent to infra-red light - and, if you alter the...
[December 7, 2007, 15:38]
BumpTop - putting physics in the desktop
Blog The theory is explained in Anand's paper titled "Keepin' It Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphore with Physics, Piles and the Pen". This heavily Digged demo is well worth viewing if you have not seen it.
[January 29, 2007, 13:45]
Carbon copy the future of physics
Blog More exciting news from the increasingly carboniferous world of solid state physics. But I have a chance of learning, thanks to the paper being published (warning - PDF) not in a paid-for journal but on arXiv.org, the open repository for e-prints...
[January 3, 2008, 19:34]
Spintronics - new physics just keeps pouring out
Blog This experimental set-up is more a window into a whole new physics, much of which is unexplained, that will also exist in more mundane places. This isn't by any means the only new research pulling in exciting new directions - perhaps the most...
[June 7, 2009, 17:24]
It's not just the LHC that could rewrite physics
Blog That may not be true for the latest waxy lump of weirdness to fall out of the lughole of fundamental physics onto the pillow of public scrutiny. These are among the most significant findings of modern physics, and absolutely essential to our...
[August 30, 2008, 14:06]
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog It is in the nature of physics that some of the weirdest things live in the plainest view. Then, by the insanely simple expedient of using adhesive tape to peel off layers from ordinary graphite, then rubbing those layers gently against an oxidised...
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
New storage technology could replace hard disks...
Blog Most physics, even if successful, has at best a tangential impact on people's direct experiences. Unfortunately, the commercial world is no respector of cool physics. or, if you prefer, "Could new storage technology replace hard disks?
[May 13, 2007, 12:22]
Thursday
Blog Most famously, he predicted the existence of anti-matter and described the nature of electron spin, two aspects of his work in quantum physics. All through his life he continued working on some of the great problems in physics, and it's arguable...
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
Measuring the galaxies, one centimetre at a time
Blog It's a prize talk from a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, which was going on last week in Alberta, Canada. It lets us check the time variation of the fine-structure constant, a number at...
[June 13, 2007, 2:14]
Birth of a new Wi-Fi
Blog One of those new frequency bands is 60GHz, which combines extremely high bandwidth possibilities with some very challenging physics. There may be another, even more intractable issue facing VHT than dull old physics, duller old industry conflicts...
[September 13, 2008, 23:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'd rather they relied on the physics. A whole tribe believes in zero-point, over-unity or similar energy sources, all of which differ in detail but agree on the main points: they produce more energy than they require to operate, there's no way...
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Nanotechnology - small wonder it's coming
Blog It's coming because it solves real problems and makes good use of all the expensive lessons we've learned refining semiconductor physics and production, and it's going away as a concept because it's going to be part of everything.
[June 25, 2008, 1:27]
It's not electronic, it's not a card and it's not Christmassy, but...
Blog By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that represents text," said Zohar, a physics doctoral student. It helps that the hyper-analytical, rules-based yet lateral mindset...
[December 21, 2007, 15:28]
Friday
Blog In physics, subatomic particles end in -ino (including the infamous mystery object that caused so much confusion when it was first spotted in the lab it had the unofficial name of a fuctifino) and the elements, which are built out of those...
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine
Blog Apparently, every bit of the Orbo perpetual motion over-unity energy-from-nowhere device is explicable by standard physics "except the net result". So far, though, the 'net result' in terms of the failed demo in 2007 and the disbanding of the...
[October 12, 2009, 17:31]
Intel Developer Forum 2009 - day one
Blog But before I mention Paul Otellini's keynote - Moblin, Atom, embedded chips, graphs go up and down (rarely with numbers), smiling people juggle exciting technology - I think we should take a moment to examine that new force in semiconductor...
[September 23, 2009, 16:09]
Green light produces purple - no, red! - faces
Blog Let us know when you've changed the laws of physics to make it more standard lamp, less gym equipment. I should have remembered more of my schoolboy physics, most notably the rather pleasing facts that the work done by force of one newton over one...
[February 20, 2008, 12:58]
Steorn sets up for second bite at perpetual cherry
Blog Perpetual motion - a technology so outside the laws of physics that even the patent office refuses to touch it - is back. Or it will be when Steorn, the Emerald Isle's leading proponents of the art, shows off working machines and opens the tech up...
[December 14, 2009, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can't change the laws of physics, but you can push them a long way. Tuesday 9/04/2002 Intelligence today from the University of California at Berkeley, where they habitually tamper with nature as if it were a mere plaything -- I can recommend a...
[April 12, 2002, 18:07]
Steorn demo fails to appear - update
Blog Those engaging chaps from Dublin who claim to have rewritten the laws of physics and invented a perpetual motion machine are in town. More precisely, Steorn has taken over the Kinetica Museum, an arty space in the remains of London's Spitalfields...
[July 5, 2007, 9:17]
