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Vijay Jain ’11 has found a medium in which he can combine his two loves, chemistry and physics??he researches the effect of magnets on chemicals on the nano scale, looking to see how physical forces can influence chemical reactivity...
Several professors at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have taken a novel approach to teaching physics??cooking in class...
Cavanagh’s own research, which takes the same approach, has led him to a number of discoveries about an “alternative physics?? operating in representational artworks. Impossible shadows, reflections, and contours number among the artistic flaws surveyed in an article Cavanagh wrote for the science journal “Nature” entitled “Artists as Neuroscientists.” “Artists use this alternative physics because these particular deviations from true physics do not matter to the viewer,” he writes. “The artists...
...thing, but when you try and do anything for the first time you have to be prepared for something unexpected,” said Thomas J. LeCompte, the physics coordinator of a key LHC experiment. “This is why I personally don’t do space physics??if your satellite explodes on the launch pad you’re in even worse shape...
When activated, the LHC will be used to examine a hole in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics??a theoretical framework that is used to draw links between the four “fundamental forces” of the universe and the 12 elementary particles on which those forces...