Ph106 class 29 (June 9th)
Business as usual
What kinds of things we do
Look at a (tiny) sample of some current areas of research
- What is real ... when two opposites (anti-particles) meet ‘much’ comes out.
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Broken spacetime, with the unspeakable at the center : black holes.
( Merging. )
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Vibrations of space and time : gravitational waves and how we will
measure them.
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10–20 billion years (and counting) :
history of the Universe
(pdf), as calculated (and seen).
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Nano-particles: engineer your own (materials), from the scratch.
Hard to make and control ...
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... life and physics – together : mighty
bacteria
help with nano-particles production.
( image )
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Novel materials : magic is natural
for ‘negative materials’
(the paper, from
Optics
Express).
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Slice it, and roll it up (in many ways) : carbon nano-tubes are very useful.
(Sci-Fi kind of useful.)