Anthony Reynolds
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The Joy of Mathematical Proofs
I just received a new physics textbook that I ordered online - yes, I know, I don't need any more physics textbooks - and, as usual, no matter how familiar the material, I can always find something to learn that I didn't know. This book is Matter in Motion...
I just received a new physics textbook that I ordered online - yes, I know, I don't need any more physics textbooks - and, as usual, no matter how familiar the material, I can always find something to learn that I didn't know. This book is Matter in Motion...
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Lola Montez
This lady has one of the craziest stories around. Everywhere in Munich and Bavaria you hear stories about "crazy King Ludwig," and they are usually referring to Ludwig II, the young king who built not one but three fairy tale castles, the most famous of whi...
This lady has one of the craziest stories around. Everywhere in Munich and Bavaria you hear stories about "crazy King Ludwig," and they are usually referring to Ludwig II, the young king who built not one but three fairy tale castles, the most famous of whi...
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The Pullach Deutsch - Französisches Freundschaftsfest
Yesterday, Freitag 24 Juni, was the start of the 23rd Freundschaftsfest on the Kirchplatz in Pullach im Iasartal, just south of Munich, on the Isar river. The square was closed off for food, drink (lots of bier und wein), and music. My favorite Weissbier (F...
Yesterday, Freitag 24 Juni, was the start of the 23rd Freundschaftsfest on the Kirchplatz in Pullach im Iasartal, just south of Munich, on the Isar river. The square was closed off for food, drink (lots of bier und wein), and music. My favorite Weissbier (F...
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The best popular science books
I just ran across this post by Steven Weinberg listing the best science books for the general reader. For the most part, I like the list (see below). I own 6 of the books, and have read most of 4 of them. There are some that I think are excellent, like Gamo...
I just ran across this post by Steven Weinberg listing the best science books for the general reader. For the most part, I like the list (see below). I own 6 of the books, and have read most of 4 of them. There are some that I think are excellent, like Gamo...
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Gravitational Waves and Science
While looking through some of my books, I came across one of my favorite popular physics or astronomy books of all time, "Black holes, quasars, and the universe," by Harry L. Shipman. Written in 1980, there was, of course, no observational evidence for grav...
While looking through some of my books, I came across one of my favorite popular physics or astronomy books of all time, "Black holes, quasars, and the universe," by Harry L. Shipman. Written in 1980, there was, of course, no observational evidence for grav...
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Walter Elsasser "Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age"
Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age by Walter M. Elsasser My rating: 4 of 5 stars Elsasser was the founder of the dynamo theory of the Earth's magnetic field, and also had a successful career in other areas of physics, nuclear physics in Paris with the...
Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age by Walter M. Elsasser My rating: 4 of 5 stars Elsasser was the founder of the dynamo theory of the Earth's magnetic field, and also had a successful career in other areas of physics, nuclear physics in Paris with the...
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Ulm
While my students went off to Prague for the weekend, I went to Ulm on Saturday. It's a very old city - founded around 850 CE - and is situated on the Donau (Danube) River. For some reason I am drawn to the Donau, not only because of the song. There are sev...
While my students went off to Prague for the weekend, I went to Ulm on Saturday. It's a very old city - founded around 850 CE - and is situated on the Donau (Danube) River. For some reason I am drawn to the Donau, not only because of the song. There are sev...
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Germany II
Tomorrow will be the 6th time I will travel to Europe. Summer 1973 to Madrid to live in my uncle's house for one month. Summer 1983 to live in Vitoria with a family for 5 weeks. Thanksgiving 1999 to Brussels to collaborate with J. Lemaire for one week. Fall...
Tomorrow will be the 6th time I will travel to Europe. Summer 1973 to Madrid to live in my uncle's house for one month. Summer 1983 to live in Vitoria with a family for 5 weeks. Thanksgiving 1999 to Brussels to collaborate with J. Lemaire for one week. Fall...
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Rogue Waves and Freak Waves
I just finished reading Susan Casey's "The Wave," a very good book that mostly describes the big wave surfing community of Laird Hamilton and others, and the quest to surf a 100-foot wave. This part of the book is pretty good, and I enjoyed meeting the char...
I just finished reading Susan Casey's "The Wave," a very good book that mostly describes the big wave surfing community of Laird Hamilton and others, and the quest to surf a 100-foot wave. This part of the book is pretty good, and I enjoyed meeting the char...
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Gravitational Waves!
At last! 100 years after Einstein developed his field equation for general relativity, one of its key predictions, gravitational waves, have been directly detected. On February 11, 2016, the LIGO team announced the discovery. Among the many news reports, th...
At last! 100 years after Einstein developed his field equation for general relativity, one of its key predictions, gravitational waves, have been directly detected. On February 11, 2016, the LIGO team announced the discovery. Among the many news reports, th...
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