Author Archives: physcarl

Physicists Celebrate Christmas Too! Top 5 Xmas Gifts to Give a Physicist

Posted on November 13, 2011 by physcarl

With Christmas fast approaching, that time of year where you have no idea what to get anyone you know closes in on you. Carl Talks Physics helps you with 5 hot gift ideas for the lucky physicist in your life… … Continue reading →

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News: Detecting E.T. by looking for their street lights

Posted on November 5, 2011 by physcarl

As far as we know, Earth is the only place in the universe where life exists and indeed, flourishes. We have been fascinated with the thought of alien life for many years and within the last century even begun searching for … Continue reading →

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News: 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics – Mystery of the Accelerating Universe

Posted on October 8, 2011 by physcarl

Last week the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded by the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to three physicists for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess observed supernovae (exploding stars) at … Continue reading →

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Neutrino Oscillations: A Mathematical Introduction

Posted on October 2, 2011 by physcarl

Neutrinos have recently flooded the headlines with a result that may be a hint of hidden extra dimensions, a hint that we may have the wrong view of our universe or even a hint that we don’t know the distance … Continue reading →

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News: Have physicists caught neutrinos breaking the universal speed limit?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by physcarl

A few days ago a group of scientists published results from their experiment that appeared to show that neutrinos travelled faster than the speed of light, which Einstein’s theory of special relativity says is the cosmic speed limit – nothing could … Continue reading →

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News: New views of Apollo landing sites remind us we walked on the Moon; show we didn’t walk far

Posted on September 7, 2011 by physcarl

NASA have recently released new higher resolution images of some of the Apollo landing sites that show our physical legacy on the Moon in more detail than ever before. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is currently orbiting the Moon creating three dimensional … Continue reading →

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