Fundamental physics | To catch a gravitational wave | Economist.com

Teriffic overview of the current big science projects underway to tackle the problem of gravity wave detection. Has implications for relativity theory and string theory as well.

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Physics for Non-Physicists - Part 1 of n - The Basics

I've been seeing some great science articles lately on the vine, and it's been extremely interesting. But it can be a bit of a challenge to follow some of the deeper aspects of physics and science and general if you don't have a basic understanding of the concepts involved.

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Spotting the quantum tracks of gravity waves

THE spooky link that can exist between quantum particles even when they are far apart could provide an unexpected way to detect the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

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Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?

In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse.

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Grasshopper Enterprises » How to Stop Time

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th↓s side up 6

In this rather belated edition, peering at the US military poses some questions regarding Guantanamo Bay and it's doctors, we revisit the problems of dark matter, look to the future of DNA tests in our coffee jars and look at the issues surrounding South Africa's ex-deputy presi

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Quantum Revolution Lecture for Non-Scientists

It doesn’t take an Einstein to understand modern physics, says Professor Richard Wolfson at the outset of this course on what may well be the most important subject in the universe.

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BBC News: Grand webcast to honour Einstein

Huge conference of great physicists to discuss matters relating to.. well.. physics; webcast hosted in celebration of 100 years since Einstein's theory of relativity was published

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Blackhole makes an indent on "space-time"

The physicists behind MIT have pin-pointed a blackhole that has dented itself into space-time. Although, this theoretically has already been proved the fact that scientists have actually observed such "phenomena" in the stars above brings home the peculiarity of blackholes.

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