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Carbonite: discovered (or something like it)

When I was in 7-8 grade I saw (as anyone else) the StarWars episodes. After this experience, I still had lots of unanswered questions. For example, what is carbonite - the black material they used to pack Han Solo in Episode 5? Hmmm... I had that question Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:48 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Poincare's conjecture proof completed?

A few years ago, I was surprised to see an announcement in Mathworld stating (again) that the Poincare conjecture has been proved. "This time for real" they said. Being skeptical, I waited for more independent confirmation of this result... which never Read More...
Posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:22 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

First artificial black hole created?

As an unexpected side effect of an experiment, Horatiu Nastase (of Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island), found something which looks like a black hole: When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:31 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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Short gamma-ray burst mystery is solved

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are probably the most violent events that happen today in universe. In a few seconds or less, a gamma-ray burst releases an enormous quantity of energy (10 44 - 10 46 J), which is comparable to burning up the entire mass-energy Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:21 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Nuclear fusion to be probed in France?

ITER is one the largest physics experiments ever attempted. In short, it should be the first research fusion reactor that actually will succeed to produce power. ITER attempts to operate in the 500 MW (thermal) range, which is around the output of a small Read More...
Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 2:16 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

How does a four-dimensional world look like?

Eric Lippert is running an eye-catcher series on High Dimensional spaces (see here part one and two ). Which got me thinking. The classical laws of Optics work can be easily generqalized to N spatial dimensions. You could easily imagine things like refraction Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:54 PM by AdiOltean | 8 Comments
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