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...future has been shaken. "Yubari citizens are filled with anxiety about the future, and so are a lot of Japanese people," says Sasaya, the snow piling outside his small shop in Yubari's shuttered downtown. "It makes me wonder where Japan is headed." The answer could lie in another Newtonian law: what goes up, must come down...
Lewis Z. Liu ’08 also seems to have found inspiration within Harvard’s walls. He made “On the Basics of Newtonian Forces” in a VES directed research class. For the installation, Liu hung small, square canvases on the wall with larger rectangular and triangular ones, connected—through laws of physics—with ropes and some pulley systems...
...Whimsical” is a term not often applied to physics. From the lay perspective—or at least from those exposed only to Newtonian mechanics—the connotations of such a word seem diametrically opposite to the content of the field. Yet “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” by Professor of Physics Lisa Randall ’83, adds a whole new dimension to physics—figuratively and literally. This informal textbook argues that the universe has more than the traditionally recognized four...
...question was a snap: "State and compare the laws of mass energy and momentum conservation in Newtonian and relativistic mechanics . . ." At least it was a snap for Ruth Lawrence, who scribbled the answers to this and 80 other mind bogglers in a four-week Oxford University exam "as if taking dictation," in the words of an awed fellow student. When the marathon test ended, Lawrence had finished first in a field of 192. The average student struggles through just 31 such questions. Lawrence's feat was remarkable for anyone, but all the more so for her, since she is only...
...Einstein, of course, who turned physics on its head in the early 20th century by asking—and answering—fundamental questions about classical Newtonian physics. Before his time, many physicists were claiming that the important questions in physics had already been answered and were urging graduate students to consider other career choices...