The big development of the week is that I bought a new car, as seen in the featured image. This ate up most of Tuesday, but I still got some quality physics blogging in over at Forbes:
— The Basic Science Behind Creating Colors: A look at two quantum-mechanical phenomena and one quirk of biology that can be used to make people see colors.
— Six Things Everyone Should Know About Quantum Physics: An update of an old post here, Seven Essential Elements of Quantum Physics. You can see from the titles that, in the intervening five-and-a-half years, I've managed to simplify quantum mechanics by almost 15%.
— The One Thing everybody Should Know About Relativity: Same idea, other great theory of modern physics. Talks about how the principle of relativity can be used to understand time dilation and length contraction, the origin of rest energy, and the bending of light by gravity.
The quantum post has drawn a huge amount of traffic– over 40,000 views, which isn't quite "viral;" maybe "bacterial"?– but the comments are, shall we say, somewhat less on point than the comments to the 2010 post, which were really good. I miss useful comment traffic… also, get off my lawn, or I'll run you over with my middle-aged dad car.
And with that, Kate and I are off to Readercon for the weekend. If you're there, stop by and say "hi." I'm on a "panel of experts" at noon Saturday, and talking about technology vs. magic at 10am Sunday.
Source: Physics Blogging Round-Up, New Car Edition
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