Professor Eric E. Johnson of the University of North Dakota School of Law tries to solve the legal conundrum of the Swiss black hole. In “The Black Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World” (Tennessee Law Review, no. 819, 2009, arXiv:0912.5480v2) he writes: “What should a court do with a preliminary-injunction request […]
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Earth: A small chance to win a big trip
Adding to our knowledge that the residents of planet earth are unstable, Jacques Laskar (pictured here) and Mickael Gastineau of the Observatoire de Paris calculate that so, too, is our planet’s residency in the solar system. Thanks to an instability in the entire system, we could all win a big trip to far-off places. Details […]
Paper Plane Propelled by Laser Driven Exotic Target
“Microairplane Propelled by Laser Driven Exotic Target,” T. Yabe, C. Phipps, M. Yamaguchi, R. Nakagawa, K. Aoki, H. Mine, Y. Ogata, C. Baasandash, M. Nakagawa, E. Fujiwara, K. Yoshida, A. Nishiguchi, and I. Kajiwara, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 80, no. 23, June 10, 2002. The authors, at Tokyo Institute of Technology, report [AIR 16:1]:
Little train info and a little train info
Here are this month’s Railroads for Physicists links (thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing them to our attention): 1. Info about train travel to the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. 2. Info about: (A) the toy train inside the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; and (B) the NY Times account […]