Thursday 2 October 2014

Would you use VPLab: The virtual physical laboratory if it was free?

The AIP has been approached by the company behind VPLab to see if we want to follow the lead of the IoP, our sister organisation in the UK, and subsidise a free licence to universities. Before we even begin to consider such a thing, let's find out who wants to use it!

If you are keen, email me at d.hoxley@latrobe.edu.au.

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Charm is not restricted to quarks.

Those of you with an interest in the personalities and history of 'modern' physics might like this short clip of Murray Gell-Mann  describing Dirac's reaction to quarks. It's very charming.

I got the link from http://www.reddit.com/r/physics, which is great. Reddit contains a lot of odd and banal stuff, but there are gems.