The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa. Nambu, although not exactly famous outside of physics circles, is one of the most influential theoretical particle physicists of the last half-century. …
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Nobel 2008: Broken Symmetry
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iCosmo
http://www.andrewjaffe.net/blog/science/000372.htmlA quick pointer to Initiative for Cosmology (iCosmo). The website brings together a bunch of useful calculations for physical cosmology -- relatively simple quantities like the relationship between redshift and distance, and also more complicated ones like the power spectrum of density perturbations …
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The State of UK Physics (Wakeham)
http://www.andrewjaffe.net/blog/science/000371.htmlThe Wakeham Review on the state of UK Physics has been released. Andy Lawrence has a good executive summary and The Guardian an overview. It seems to be positive about the state of physics overall, but perhaps lacks the rage and invective the community was hoping for. …
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Planet Musings
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/planetAndrew Jaffe — Nobel 2008: Broken Symmetry
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If I give you an eigenfunction, you should give me back my eigenvalue
http://matterwaves.wordpress.comleave on the line
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Telescoper
http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/09/28/telescoper/From Andrew Jaffe, I just learned that Peter Coles has a new blog: In the Dark Peter is a theoretical cosmologist at Cardiff, in the UK, and the author of various interesting books. And in case you didn’t notice it in John
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Superconformal Brook
http://melvineloy.wordpress.comAndrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
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A Quantum Diaries Survivor
http://dorigo.wordpress.comAndrew Jaffe
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Letters to Nature
http://letterstonature.wordpress.comLeaves on the Line
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Paparazzi or preprints?
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2008/09/08/paparazz...matter, correctly attributing the source of the data and noting it as preliminary. Nature appears to be somewhat upset, referring to the physicists as “paparazzi”. The PAMELA folks themselves seem a bit mixed, as the spokesperson at the conference appears to have given permission for the photos to be used this way, while the Principal Investigator seems to feel differently. On the blogs above the discussion rages on, and the conversation is probably a useful one for the community to have, as there are two separate but
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Science Debate 2008
http://political-blogging.hotmodelmania.com/19556/science-de...It's making the science-blogging rounds today that Obama has answered the questions posed as Science Debate 2008, questions on education, ... acknowledges and condemns... Original post: Science Debate 2008 by at Aggregated News Technorati tag: Political blogging
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Peter Suber, Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.htmlbut is relatively rare in physics. Falkowski says he can't recall another case. Still, he says, "I personally don't find anything wrong with it." Also see the growing number of comments at the end of the article. There are more comments here, here, and here.
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Dark data about dark matter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/09/dark-data-about-d...but is relatively rare in physics. Falkowski says he can't recall another case. Still, he says, "I personally don't find anything wrong with it." Also see the growing number of comments at the end of the article. There are more comments here, here, and here.
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