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LHC Breakthrough Unveils Key Facts about the Fundamental Symmetry of Nature

These measurements may help physicists determine which theory of the Fundamental Laws of the universe is most plausible… http://bit.ly/1G0Eiic

Fibonacci scarf finally done.

The height of my bun

is inversely proportional to the number of shits I give that day.

I.e. Top of head bun = 0 shits while neat bun at back of head = lots of shits. 

the last few days has seen me getting into very basic electronics, so here is my small robot son that yells if you get close to them

Today the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded, for the discovery that neutrinos can change ‘flavours’ and have mass.

All the science-related Nobel graphics are being compiled here: bit.ly/NobelSci2015

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How to use the Golden Ratio

source here.

A classic formula for pi has been discovered hidden in hydrogen atoms

This is truly amazing.

For the first time, scientists have discovered a classic formula for pi in the world of quantum physics. Pi is the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter, and is incredibly important in pure mathematics, but now scientists have also found it “lurking” in the world of physics, when using quantum mechanics to compare the energy levels of a hydrogen atom.

Why is that exciting? Well, it reveals an incredibly special and previously unknown connection between quantum physics and maths.

“I find it fascinating that a purely mathematical formula from the 17th century characterises a physical system that was discovered 300 years later,” said one of the lead researchers, Tamar Friedmann, a mathematician at the University of Rochester in the US. Seriously, wow.

The discovery was made when Carl Hagen, a particle physicist at the University of Rochester, was teaching a class on quantum mechanics and explaining to his students how to use a quantum mechanical technique known as the ‘variation principle’ to approximate the energy states of a hydrogen atom.

While comparing these values to conventional calculations, he noticed an unusual trend in the ratios. He asked Friedmann to help him work out this trend, and they quickly realised that it was actually a manifestation of the Wallis formula for pi – the first time it had even been derived from physics.

“We weren’t looking for the Wallis formula for pi. It just fell into our laps,” said Hagen. “It was a complete surprise,” added Friedmann. “I jumped up and down when we got the Wallis formula out of equations for the hydrogen atom.”

Since 1655 there have been plenty of proofs of Wallis’s formula, but all have come from the world of mathematics, and the new results have people freaking out. The results have been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.

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Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.  It matters that you don’t just give up.

Stephen Hawking, who turns 74 today. Happy birthday! (via astrowhat)