Topic: "Off the Extreme Energy Cliff From Space" (Video)
[more]Topic: "Branched flow of waves and rays in quantum mechanics, oceanography, acoustics, and more" (Video) Abstract: The familiar twinkling of starlight or the pattern of sunlight on a pool bottom is the beginning of the phenomenon of branched flow, which applies to both waves and rays. It is a beautiful and poorly studied phenomenon, given its ubiquity. We illustrate, explain, and discuss the applicability across many fields of science.
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The 2013 E.E. Just Symposium is set to be a reprise of last year’s star-studded premiere event, though not precisely a repeat performance. “This year it takes a new tack evident in its theme, ‘Exploring the Future of STEM’,” says symposium organizer and Dartmouth theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander, the E.E. Just 1907 Professor of Natural Sciences.
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Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy, answers science’s most important questions from The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns.
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Quasars are among the brightest, oldest, most distant, and most powerful objects in the universe. Powered by massive black holes at the center of most known galaxies, quasars can emit enormous amounts of energy, up to a thousand times the total output of the hundreds of billions of stars in our entire Milky Way.
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