Sep 01 2009
By Ian Woolf
At the Powerhouse Museum’s ‘Einstein Lecture’, U.S Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss spoke about the invisible dark energy required by the most popular theory of cosmology. He wrapped up by explaining the dark future for the Universe when all the stars go away.
Hey, isn't that philosophy?
That’s the short story. Now here it is in a slightly longer version…
Aug 24 2009
Alex Serpo likes particular particles in precise positions. He’s pretty sure that right now Heisenberg is playing chess with Schrödinger in the afterlife.
Let me tell you a secret. In every scientist there is an anarchist. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. What all scientists have in common is they really, really like to break things.
Physics is no exception.
Aug 21 2009
After a fortuitous encounter at the Eureka Awards dinner on Tuesday, Professor Bryan M. Gaensler leapt on a brilliant opportunity. But first: watch this.
Physics professor Gaensler had a tutorial scheduled the next day about the challenges of portraying science and astronomy in film. He planned to use 1996 movie ‘Contact‘ (starring Jodie Foster) as his primary example.
Over dinner, however, Gaensler discovered that the gentleman to his left was none other than ’space artist’ Jon Lomberg.
From 1995-1997 Lomberg worked on the Warner Brothers film as Astronomical Visual Consultant. He designed and story-boarded many of the film’s astronomical animation sequences, including the famed three-minute zoom out from Earth that opens the movie (here again on QuietTube) – the very sequence Gaensler planned to show students the next day.
Sensibly, Gaensler’s first question to Lomberg was “What are you doing at noon tomorrow?”
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