The Truth "Quantum Mechanics"

Do you have a favourite physicist ?.
I certainly do!, Paul Dirac for me is one of the most exceptional human beings I've ever came across in my entire life and without a doubt a character that occurs very few times in a species history.

This is my "lock screen" picture for some years now I even forgot how long it has been and that's why I thought I would share with you my passion towards the great Dirac.

It just happened that Richard Feynman was in the picture too! How amazing is that?!? .
Richard Feynman considered Dirac as one of the most influential thinkers in the history of humanity, Feynman had serious high regards to Dirac and after all Feynman picked up where Dirac left in QED (Quantum ElectroDynamics).

QED is regarded and well deserved as the most understood principle of nature humanity ever got to understand so accurately which is rather ironic when it comes to the measurement problem LOL!!, all of our technologies today are purely based on the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

Those great thinkers will always be an inspiration and once a very wise man said the following:

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton.

We surely today stand on the shoulders of giants!.

One of the true pleasures I get from studying theoretical physics is going back and reading the notes of the great physicists of the past written in their own hand writing!, trying to decipher how they approached problems, very enriching activity that I recommend to every physics major!.

These are the notes of the great Enrico Fermi in 1954.

The chief engineers of our beloved Quantum Mechanics!, for me personally I have a soft spot for the great Dirac, such a unique character to say the least, Wolfgang Pauli said once "There is no God and Dirac is his prophet!" :D that is physics humour for you!.

For those who appreciate the work of Dirac I recommend getting your hand on a book called "The Strangest Man" which is based on the life of Paul Dirac.

On Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Strangest-Man-Hidden-Dirac-Mystic/dp/0465022103

Weinberg discussing the measurement problem!.

I believe we should abandon the "Shut up and calculate!" approach to teaching physics today, the philosophy of physics is of a great importance and sadly most the new generation physicists today have departed from philosophy which is reflecting on the quality of current debate and ideas.

What does the "interpretation of QM" mean to you ?, and should it have a meaning ?.

Weinberg on the measurement problem In his new article in the NY Review of Books, the titan Steven Weinberg expresses more sympathy for the importance of the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. The article has nothing new for f…

It's finally official for LIGO (The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) to release an update on the hunt for "gravitational wave", one of Albert Einstein's wildest ideas could be confirmed on the 11th of Feb, if detected you will tell your children, and grandchildren that you were alive when they announced the discovery, this is how important its.

When blackholes merge (yes they do merge to become even a bigger blackhole!!) they actually dance around each others for a while, and the dance/merging moment causes spacetime to ripple sending gravitational waves throughout the universe, actually if the gravitational waves are big enough ,and pass through a room you are sitting in, you,and the room will stretch,and contract as spacetime does the same.

Newtonian gravity as most of you know it is a force of nature, but Einstein being einstein proved that gravity is the geometry of spacetime, just like trampoline with a heavy weight in the middle, the weight (mass) will create a well or curvature in the fabric of the trampoline, and if you start dropping other objects you will see them falling into the well, same with gravity, the sun is creating curvature in the spacetime around it, which keeps solar system free falling into the sun (like the international space station free falling towards the earth but because of its speed,and no friction it keeps going), unlike the trampoline outer space has no friction so objects dont fall into the sun, and carry on orbiting the sun.

Einstein's law of gravity is called "General Relativity", its breath taking, but as all beautiful things it comes with a heavy price, its very very difficult, and counter intuitive.

Lets see what happens on Thursday !

http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php

LIGO Scientific Collaboration - Media Advisory for Feb 11, 2016 100 years after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, the National Science Foundation gathers scientists from Caltech, MIT and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to update the scientific community on efforts to detect them.

I have a dream !!
Mrs tompkins in wonderland by George Gamow is highly recommended for those who want to understand quantum mechanics.

I'm deeply sorry for the fans of this page that I have been very busy with my degree to update it, now things will change!!

In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to measurements by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Learn more here: http://buff.ly/1p8TIHM

NASA's Fermi finds a 'transformer' pulsar In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to me…

is that even possible ??

http://phys.org/news/2014-07-material-steam-solar-illumination.html

Material generates steam under solar illumination A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun.

A great blog by one of the pioneers in string theory "even if u dont like it ", Prof. Susskind have wrote one of the greatest books i have ever came cross "the blackhole war", honestly a treat for the mind and one of my favorite books and he started a blog so show him some support lads :)
And dont forget Physics is for everyone !!
http://susskindsblogphysicsforeveryone.blogspot.ae/

Susskind's Blog: Physics for Everyone

Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann simplified the world of particle physics in 1964 by standing it on its head. - See more at: http://www.caltech.edu/content/50-years-quarks .AB9kAPfI.fgS35UYc.dpuf

50 Years of Quarks | Caltech Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann simplified the world of particle physics in 1964 by standing it on its head. He theorized that protons—subatomic particles as solid as billiard balls and as stable as the universe—were actually cobbled together from bizarre entities, dubbed "quarks," whose properties a...

if u have ever wondered during the day when the sun light warms ur skin with this beautiful heat if u were on the beach or looking at the sky at work, NASA SDO have released this truly breath taking video of the sun, 3 years of recording in a 3 mins video :)

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/three-years-of-the-sun-in-three-minutes-video/

Three Years of the Sun in Three Minutes (Video) While the Sun is our primary source of energy, it's also one of our greatest threats (after all, it's going to eat Earth in a few billion years) ... ...