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X-rays emitted from ordinary Scotch tape
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27323869/, posted 2008 by peter in health msm physics science
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays.
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Overcoming Bias: An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics
www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/an-intuitive-ex.html, posted 2008 by peter in physics science toread
This is one of several shortened indices into the Quantum Physics Sequence.
It is intended for students who are having trouble grasping the meaning of quantum math; or for people who want to learn the simple math of everything and are getting around to quantum mechanics.
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Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists Get a Reaction From Fusion
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121901740078248225.html?mod=blog, posted 2008 by peter in energy environment physics science
Mr. Sanns, 51 years old, is part of a small subculture of gearheads, amateur physicists and science-fiction fans who are trying to build fusion reactors in their basements, backyards and home laboratories.
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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
www.multivax.com/last_question.html, posted 2008 by peter in environment fiction inspiration literature physics scifi space
"Cosmic AC," said Man, "How may entropy be reversed?"
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Spacetime and Spin
einstein.stanford.edu/SPACETIME/spacetime4.html, posted 2008 by peter in physics science space toread
Spin in the microscopic world is subtler, and obeys rules that are at once familiar (e.g. conservation of angular momentum) and bizarrely counter-intuitive (e.g. quantization and half-integer spin for fermions).
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