The AIP has been approached by the company behind VPLab to see if we want to follow the lead of the IoP, our sister organisation in the UK, and subsidise a free licence to universities. Before we even begin to consider such a thing, let's find out who wants to use it!
If you are keen, email me at d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au.
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Charm is not restricted to quarks.
Those of you with an interest in the personalities and history of 'modern' physics might like this short clip of Murray Gell-Mann describing Dirac's reaction to quarks. It's very charming.
I got the link from http://www.reddit.com/r/physics, which is great. Reddit contains a lot of odd and banal stuff, but there are gems.
I got the link from http://www.reddit.com/r/physics, which is great. Reddit contains a lot of odd and banal stuff, but there are gems.
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