Monthly Archives: June 2012

I have a confession to make. I don’t much care for solid-state physics. It bores me to tears. It shouldn’t, but it does. Yet, once upon a time, I was on a track to build a career around it. While … Continue reading →

A glimpse into one of Einstein’s notebooks circa 1912, when he was still trying to figure out General Relativity…. Einstein’s Zurich Notebook (Tip o’ the hat to Prof. Matt Strassler for pointing out this gem….)

As I write this, an astronomical event is occurring which will not be visible from the Earth again for another 105 years: the transit of the Sun by Venus. One might wonder what the hubbub is about. After all, what … Continue reading →

This has been a big year for neutrino physics. First, results came out from Daya Bay and the RENO collaboration providing new bounds for the value of the element of the PMNS matrix. Now, the EXO-200 collaboration have revealed that no … Continue reading →