Word: precisionism
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"You went to a private school, am I right?" asks voice trainer Dewi Hughes, immediately placing me in the marzipan (almost uppermost) layer of the British social fruit cake. I did, it's true. But, I plead, I'd much rather sound like the other 98% of the country. As...
Dinners with the faculty in Victorian manors, bearded men in smoking jackets, pretentious banter over sherry carts—you won’t find any of these august fixtures in the Philosophy concentration. (There’s always the Divinity School and the Society of Fellows for that.) What...
Leverett Professor of Physics Gerald Gabrielse and his team recently advanced one of the major theories in phsyics by measuring the magnetic moment (G-factor) of an electron to a precision an order of magnitude higher than previous measurements, confirming that an electron has no internal structure and is, indeed...
“To make such a big step in accuracy is something I feel privileged to be a part of. We’ve poked and prodded at our most basic reality and it’s amazing at this incredible precision,” Gabrielse said.
The breakthrough that allowed for this new precision include a new technique to cool an electron until it reached its quantum-mechanical ground state, according to physics graduate student David A. Hanneke, who co-authored the paper. The researchers then carefully controlled the planar and axial motions of the electron...