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30 March (2019)
28 March (2019)
24 March (2019)
Encore une démonstration de la lùcheté face au courage, de la violence face à l'abnégation, de la vulgarité face à la dignité, de la frustration et la honte face au panache et l'héroisme. Mais tout a son point de rupture. AprÚs on ira s'étonner et s'indigner du retour de baton.
«On jugerait bien plus sĂ»rement un homme dâaprĂšs ce quâil rĂȘve que dâaprĂšs ce quâil pense». Victor Hugo.
Replying to @SamuelGWalters
23 March (2019)
So today the French *army* will be facing the French people in Paris. Isn't the government afraid that they would unite? The soldiers are reservists, meaning probably a good fraction of them are "gilets jaunes". Maybe a new historical figure and a mutiny will meet together today.
22 March (2019)
So tomorrow the French police will be facing the French people in Paris. Isn't the government afraid that they would unite?
I couldn't even write it down... it's so unbelievable my subconscious censored the sentence!
Scary moment when nontrivial AI is doing something creatively unique out of your (human) input as a recreative, straightforward #BachDoodle (here's mine g.co/doodle/vz28wv - its harmonizing might even be new each time!)
20 March (2019)
@j_bertolotti Nice. You get a similar effect by tunneling through a high potential barrier with the transport equation: the wavepacket is unaffected and passes through like butter, but the complex wave itself gets very much compressed since its energy is shifted upward as it crosses over.
11 March (2019)
With Zizai Ning at the cello, it's not the cello that plays the String Quartet n°5 but the String Quartet n°5 that plays the cello: youtube.com/watch?v=NHFNl3âŠ
9 March (2019)
University of the Year in the Midlands!
Our first results for the female physicists poll. This one was easy, the others have much more modest success rates. There's from 10 minutes to 8 hours to try yourself with the remaining 9 contenders.
8 March (2019)
Who's she? Self-taught polymath, she invented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technique to help the war effort. More famous as a Holywood star (e.g. in Samson and Delilah), she was the first to appear nude in a movie. Her invention is still used today for wifi & bluetooth.
Who's she? Self-taught and hiding her sex in correspondence with Lagrange until he requested a meeting, and to Gauss who said "she has the most noble courage, extraordinary talent, and superior genius". She made breakthroughs in elasticity, Chladni patterns and number theory.
Who's she? The first woman astronomer, described as an enchantress (or witch) by Socrates for her ability to make the moon disappear (she had figured out how to predict eclipses and used it to trick people that she could bring down the moon).
Who's she? The 3rd & last female Nobel prize in Physics, for the first paper she published, on chirped pulse amplification, allowing to generate tabletop terawatt lasers. She first thought the idea was too simple for a PhD. Removed from Wikipedia as not-notable before her prize.
Who's she? Nicknamed "the First Lady of Physics", "the Chinese Madame Curie" and the "Queen of Nuclear Research", she showed that nature is left-handed as the parity of particles is not conserved in the Wu experiment, which led Yang & Lee to a Nobel prize (a Wolf prize for Wu).
Who's she? The first to observe pulsars and recognize their importance, against her PhD advisor who got the Nobel prize for it (not her). Not resentful for this injustice, she gave the whole ÂŁ2.3m of a later prize to help women, ethnic minority and refugees to become Physicists.
Who's she? DNA pioneer but not recognized at the time, with other important contributions as a Crystallographer to understanding the molecular structure of coal, graphite and viruses. She died at 37. A building of @wlv_uni is named after her.
Who's she? The only woman at ZĂŒrich's Polytechnic when Einstein studied there, becoming his spouse. She had a supposed yet still unclear contribution to the Annus Mirabilis papers and the theory of relativity. She got the money of Einstein's Nobel prize while he got the title.
Who's she? The second woman to win a Nobel prize, mother of the nuclear shell model and of two-photon processes, whose scattering cross section unit is named after her. She asked "Do girls only have to learn how to read just to study cook books?" #WomeninPhysics #PassOnMyWisdom!
How well do you know your female Physicists? To celebrate #IWD2019âI will challenge you with increasingly difficult questions. Who's she? The most famous woman Physicist, got two Nobel prizes (in a family who got 5) & christened radioactivity which she studied till it killed her.
7 March (2019)