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The Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter |
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Phase transitions and massive-neutrino decay are two processes that could lead to the preponderance of matter in the universe. Either way, the standard model for particle physics will have to be modified. -- Helen R. Quinn |
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Bubble Puzzles |
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Bubbles are familiar from daily life and occupy an important role in physics, chemistry, medicine, and technology. Nevertheless, their behavior is often surprising and unexpected--and, in many cases, still not understood. -- Detlef Lohse |
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Mozart and Quantum Mechanics: An Appreciation of Victor Weisskopf |
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Weisskopf had a rare and harmonious blend of sentiment and intellectual rigor. He liked to say that his favorite occupations were Mozart and quantum mechanics. -- Kurt Gottfried and J. David Jackson |
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The Privilege of Being a Physicist |
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Because of the central position of science in our civilization, physicists should be deeply concerned with the involvement of science in worldwide cultural and political affairs. -- Victor F. Weisskopf |
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Readings from the Physics Today Archive |
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Physics Update |
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Reference Frame |
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Life's Parameters -- Frank Wilczek |
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Letters |
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Kagome: The Story of the Basketweave Lattice |
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Students Need Scientific Habits and Basic Concepts |
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DARI to Go Where Radiation Has Gone Before |
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Hiroshima Bomb's Explosive Yield Less than Reported |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Thermal Gradients Can Boost the Local Concentration of DNA in Solution |
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Did thermal diffusion and convection initiate the creation of the first biomolecules 3.5 billion years ago? |
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GRACE Satellites Start to Map Earth's Gravity Field |
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Earth is by no means a perfectly smooth sphere, but a rather bumpy, oblate ball of mass. Today's geophysicists want to know more accurately not only what the gravity field is at each point on Earth, but how it is changing with time. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is designed to track those changes over its 5-year lifetime. |
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Infrared Adaptive Optics Reveals Stars Orbiting Within Light-Hours of the Milky Way's Center |
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Orbital periods as short as 15 years clinch the case for a supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's heart. |
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Issues & Events |
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Browne Leaves Los Alamos Directorship, Perplexed but Resigned |
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As LANL director, John Browne had weathered Wen Ho Lee, wildfires, and lost computer disks, but he couldn't satisfy DOE concerns over procurement card abuses at the lab and it cost him his job. |
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Younger Speaks From the Frontline of Defense |
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New weapons can be built in record time to defend against terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, says Stephen Younger, the military's top physicist. |
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Einstein Exhibit In-Depth in New York |
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The exhibit,
which opened in November 2002 at the New York City museum
and runs through 10 August 2003, is one of the most comprehensive
Einstein programs ever put together. |
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Closer NNSA-Academic Links Needed to Boost Plasma Physics, NRC Says |
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According
to a new report, Frontiers
in High Energy Density Physics, the growing
sophistication of instruments for observing matter under
extreme high-energy-density (HED) conditions in both astrophysics
research and laboratory plasmas has created an "opportune
time" for scientists. |
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Physics Education in the Netherlands Gets Good Marks, Advice |
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Dutch physics education is world-class, an external reviewing committee concluded last fall in a report on the Netherlands' nine university programs in physics, applied physics, and astronomy. For more than a decade, however, the country has seen falling physics enrollments, and many of the committee's recommendations are aimed at reversing that trend. |
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Sreenivasan Called to Head ICTP |
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This spring, Katepalli Sreenivasan will become the third director--and the first experimentalist--to head the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. |
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News Notes |
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Rejoin ITER; Increase infrastructure spending; Central European Journal; Earth surface journal; |
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Web watch |
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United Devices Cancer Research Project; Lars Onsager; FirstGov for Science |
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APS Heads to Austin, Texas, for Its Annual March Meeting |
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Opinion |
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Arrogance--A Dangerous Weapon of the Physics Trade? |
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Books |
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox (reviewed by Eugenie V. Mielczarek) |
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True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics, Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch (reviewed by J. Robert Schrieffer) |
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Journey from the Center of the Sun, Jack B. Zirker (reviewed by Loren W. Acton) |
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Stellar Physics, G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan (reviewed by Robert Deupree) |
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Mathematics of Genome Analysis, Jerome K. Percus (reviewed by Ralf Bundschuh) |
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Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, John H. Moore and Nicholas D. Spencer, eds. (reviewed by William Klemperer) |
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New Products |
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Focus on Magnetics |
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We Hear That |
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Dresselhaus to Head AIP Board |
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APS Bestows Honors in a Wide Range of Fields |
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Peterson is AAPT Vice President for 2003 |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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Boyce Dawkins McDaniel |
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Gordon James Stanley |
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Gilbert Shapiro |
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Leonid Yakovlevich Margolin |
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