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"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler", Albert Einstein
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How To Steer Sound Using Light
The ability to create phonons and then steer them using laser beams could lead to a new generation of applications, say physicists Zap an optical fibre with a couple of laser beams and the resulting interference pattern causes an interesting effect–it squeezes the material, an effect known as electrostriction. This creates a compression wave called […]
Finally – A Higgs Boson Story Anyone Can Understand
July 16, 2012
Einstein famously marveled over the idea that the universe was comprehensible. But on July 4, the universe started to sound weird and unnecessarily complicated. Physicists worldwide were celebrating an elusive thing called the Higgs Boson, which had apparently made a brief appearance. They kept repeating that it was important because it gives matter mass, but […]
July 16, 2012
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