I’ve been really busy with year-end wrap-up stuff, but have also posted a bunch of stuff at Forbes. which I’ve fallen down on my obligation to promote here… So, somewhat belatedly, here’s a collection of physics-y stuff that I’ve written recently:<\/p>\n
— Using Atoms To Measure Tiny Forces<\/a>: A post reporting on some very cool atom interferometry experiments, one working to measure the very tiny (but known to exist) force of gravity, the other searching for a possible “fifth force” sort of thing.<\/p>\n — Making And Shaking New Materials With Ultracold Atoms<\/a>: A post reporting on a couple more DAMOP talks, on Cheng Chin’s group using physical shaking to simulate unusual band structures, and Cindy Regal’s group using single atoms trapped in optical tweezers to study few-body physics.<\/p>\n — What Are The Limits Of Physics?<\/a>: Having gone to a bunch of precision-measurement talks at DAMOP, I talk about three rough categories of effects that limit our ability to use experimental physics to understand the universe.<\/p>\n — Using Ultrafast Lasers To Look For Earth-Like Worlds<\/a>: A post about the ongoing “astro-comb” project using femtosecond lasers as reference sources to improve radial-velocity measurements for extrasolar planet hunting.<\/p>\n The first two were banged out at breakfast while I was at DAMOP, so they’re a little rough. I’m very happy with the other two, though. I also had a post about fictional magic<\/a> and one about the real purpose of conference talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n As always, the traffic stats for these are sort of bizarre. Half-assed philosophy of science got about five times the hits of solid physics reports, but the academic conference thing drew so few views that I thought the analytics package might’ve crashed. Go figure.<\/p>\n Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to. This weekend, I’m off to another meeting, the Convergence<\/a> workshop at Perimeter Institute. I’m function mostly as a journalist at this, which ought to be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been really busy with year-end wrap-up stuff, but have also posted a bunch of stuff at Forbes. which I’ve fallen down on my obligation to promote here… So, somewhat belatedly, here’s a collection of physics-y stuff that I’ve written recently: — Using Atoms To Measure Tiny Forces: A post reporting on some very cool… Continue reading Tiny Forces, Artificial Materials, and Wobbling Stars: Physics Post Round-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,146,676,135,19,265,7,565,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-astronomy","category-atoms_and_molecules","category-cold-atoms-physics","category-condensed_matter","category-experiment","category-in_the_media","category-physics","category-precision_measurement","category-quantum_optics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}