The Men Who Weighed Mountains
Figure 1. The original cover of the book “A Discourse on the Attraction of Mountains.” From Google Books. In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, his m...
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Energy Density Driven Galactic Formation and Evolution
This letter is inspired by the findings of M. Rabinowitz in his recent publication, “Why Observable Space Is Solely Three Dimensional” (Rabinowitz 2014). His paper provides coherent reasoning wh...
Read ItSimulating Gamma Ray Bursts
Figure 1. Artist’s conception of a black hole eating a star. (Source, Wikipedia.) It was the mid 1960s. The United States and the Soviet Union had recently signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treat...
Read ItA Formula of Particles Oscillating in Electromagnetic and Weak Fields Giving Energy and Decay of Particles, Beta Decay and Energy Levels of Hydrogen Atom
A Formula of Particles Oscillating in Electromagnetic and Weak Fields Giving Energy and Decay of Particles, Beta Decay and Energy Levels of Hydrogen Atom Kh. M. Mannan, Physics Depa...
Read ItFollowing quantum dot growth with McSAS
Thanks to Benjamin Abécassis (via Twitter), I got involved in an interesting project. Dr. Abécassis and coworkers had been doing in-situ measurements during synthesis of quantum dots, and were usin...
Read ItDoes it matter part 5.1: Detector linearity
Time for another short investigation into data corrections? Good. Let’s take a quick look at the linearity of our Bruker HiStar detector. What are we doing We are testing here whether our detector...
Read ItThe Repeating Crumley-ONS Project: Next Steps
Slightly over a month ago, I came across the Winnower and began a project in open notebook science. The concept was to upload notes from my notebook to the Winnower, archive the notes, and get DOI’...
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