Madame Wu
By Phil Deutchman Reader Contributor The U.S. Postal Service issued a new, “forever” stamp featuring the portrait of nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. She is not known to the general public, but is famous to...
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Language: Observations from a crotchety, grumpety, old physics prof
By Philip A. Deutchman Reader Contributor Would you think that language has anything at all to do with sound, rhythm or musicality? Take English, for example. It has been my empirical observation over the...
Einstein and the GPS
By Phil Deutchman Reader Contributor A hundred years ago, Einstein published his famous work on General Relativity (GR). Little did he know then that the results of his new, radical theory would be used...
