Author Archives: Glen Mark Martin

Theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg passed away on July 23 at the age of 88. In 1967, Weinberg published a brief two and a half page paper in Physical Review Letters, ‘A Model of Leptons’. This paper, Weinberg managed to demonstrate … Continue reading →

Hot on the heels of the LIGO founders being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration, in conjunction with the ESO, have struck gold again. After four detections of gravitational waves from black hole-black hole collisions, LIGO … Continue reading →

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!” – David Reitze, Executive Director of LIGO [Updated February 14 and 21, 2016 to include additional links and references. Original posting on February 11, 2016.] Last year, I wrote … Continue reading →

Between being the centenary of general relativity, the 110th anniversary of special relativity, and the 150th anniversary of the introduction of Maxwell’s equations, it is not at all surprising that UNESCO designated 2015 as the International Year of Light and … Continue reading →

On November 25 2015, Albert Einstein submitted a paper to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin presenting to the world, for the first time, the final form of his field equations relating the curvature of spacetime to the energy and momentum … Continue reading →

This last Sunday, March 8, 2015, was International Women’s Day. As I watched posts fill my social media feeds highlighting the accomplishments of numerous women who have left their mark on our civilization, I couldn’t help but want to put … Continue reading →

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first in a series of articles introducing the world to the Higgs/Englert/Brout/Guralnik/Hagen/Kibble mechanism (or what everyone tends to call the Higgs mechanism because, well, it is much shorter).  This mechanism … Continue reading →

Before I dive into trying to explain Monday’s big announcement, I would like you to take a moment to watch this video showing Chao-Lin Kuo of Stanford University, the designer of the BICEP2 detector, revealing to Andrei Linde, one of the … Continue reading →