by Captain Skellett | Apr 29, 2011 | How Things Work, Just for Fun, Science Art
Behold ferrofluid, nanoparticles of iron coated in a surfactant and suspended in a solution of oil or water. The surfactant can be citric acid or soy lecithin, among other things, and is used to stop them sticking together It’s like magnetic dust. Put a magnet...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 28, 2010 | How Things Work
Simultaneous is not simultaneous. Space and time do not exist. These, and other strange and wonderful things, are the hallmarks of Einsteins Theory of Relativity and what we’re talking about today. A few days ago I got Request a Post which read: ahoy there,...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 18, 2010 | Recent Research
For the first time ever, antimatter has been trapped by a magnetic field allowing it to be studied in detail. The 38 atoms were antihydrogen, theoretically the same as hydrogen but having the opposite charge. Where hydrogen is made of one proton, one electron,...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 5, 2010 | Science Communication
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 has just been awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene” Graphene, aka “atomic level chicken wire” are carbon atoms...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 10, 2009 | Just for Fun, Science Art
I came across this cool gift for a physicist, or anyone, because they are totally geeky and super cute. Squee! The Particle Zoo have soft quarks, leptons, nucleons, and theoreticals like the Higgs Boson and the Tachyon (which in the X-Files made time-travel...
