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Moderator Historic Vote Ties Kilogram and Other Units to Natural Constants This much-needed change is a real boost toward simpler calculations. Article: Historic Vote Ties Kilogram and Other Units to Natural Con… Started by John	0	Nov 19, 2018
Moderator Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste This is yet another reason to not use coal power plants. (I'm in coal country and we have a few lakes of this stuff) Scientific America… Started by John	0	Sep 17, 2018
Moderator Quantum Study Suggests ‘Spooky Action’ Is Real (no loopholes) The results of a new experiment, to test Bell-like inequality violations, was released in Nature magazine. This study closes nearly all lo… Started by John	2	Aug 31, 2018 Reply by John
Moderator Electromagnetic properties of the Great Pyramid: First multipole resonances and energy concentration An article from the Washington Post Peer reviewed paper Another Picture of the Resonance (one, anyway) Started by John	0	Aug 1, 2018
Moderator Physics alert: Gravitational Waves Detected at LIGO The announcement that we have all been waiting for! excerpt: Gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes have been detec… Started by John	4	Dec 22, 2017 Reply by John
Moderator Commentary: In defense of Crazy Ideas Commentary: In defense of Crazy Ideas (from Physics Today) Physics Today Article Started by John	0	Apr 3, 2017
Moderator Reality is all Math (originally posted as a Status by Anand) "Do we live inside a mathematical equation? see article here Note: Starting around 1970 with t… Started by John	26	Dec 6, 2016 Reply by David
Moderator Lisa Pathfinder Gravity Probe - Stunning Success Excerpt from BBC article: "The mission to demonstrate technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space has been a stunning succe… Started by John	0	Jun 7, 2016
Moderator Are We on the Brink of the Higgs Abyss? This is taken from a recent paper published in Physical Review letters (APS.org) This week in physics "The probability that the Universe… Started by John	0	Dec 1, 2015
Moderator One Hundred Years of General Relativity From aps.org (American Physical Society) This has a great overview of major General Relativity validations etc. excerpt: November 2015… Started by John	0	Nov 10, 2015