Comments on: From the Tau to Dark Energy: Martin Perl’s Blog

By: Dan Iezzi

Dan Iezzi — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:58:18 +0000

Dr. Perl’s three papers leading up to the satellite construction.

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/27606493/a-terrestrial-search-for-dark-contents-of-the-vacuum-such-as-dark-energy-using-atom-interferometry

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/27676130/exploring-the-possibility-of-detecting-dark-energy-in-a-terrestrial-experiment-using-atom

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/27654575/the-possible-detection-of-dark-energy-on-earth-using-atom-interferometry

Ask Dr. Perl himself whether or not his notion has no rhyme or reason.

By: HD

HD — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:48:56 +0000

To state the obvious, he’s 84, and has a Nobel. He’s largely immune to criticism about anything he writes. Unlike any non-tenured or at-will-employed scientist who might have to keep their blogging on a short leash in these days of multiple postdocs and 16% (U6) unemployment.

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Martin Perl’s new webpage; Physicists reaching out « UnEntangleMe — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:25:28 +0000

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By: Jorge Laris

Jorge Laris — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:40:07 +0000

May I suggest to the bloggers this set of blogs writtern by Physics http://www.quantumdiaries.org/

They post interesting things

By: David Brown

David Brown — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:44:30 +0000

Will the blogosphere become more and more important in physics until the onset of the Technological Singularity?
“I think that the Singularity is scary because of the prospect of sudden onset.” — Vernor Vinge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD5phhIu5fQ Tech4thought Interviews Vernor Vinge part 4, 2010, YouTube

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:25:56 +0000

Ithaca was fun, Cornell was great, and the students were fantastic. The talk wasn’t recorded, but the slides were an updated version of these:

http://preposterousuniverse.com/talks/time-colloq-09/

By: Kevin Lim

Kevin Lim — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:20:32 +0000

I wholeheartedly support the idea of physicists jumping in the blogosphere. I particularly loved that you hosted guest bloggers (like Don Page and Tom Banks recently) and have semi-technical discussions. For underfunded grad students like me who do not get to attend conferences, this is the next best thing.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:38:27 +0000

Sean: How did you like Ithaca and how did your lecture go? My Husband and I were hoping to make it but alas, he couldn’t get away from work. Any chance you’ll be posting your slides somewhere?

By: Shantanu

Shantanu — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:49:31 +0000

Sean, some of your co-bloggers have not posted anything for months or even year

By: Phillip Helbig

Phillip Helbig — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:52:27 +0000

First, the WEB was invented at CERN, not the INTERNET. The WWW is one of many applications on the internet and runs the HTTP protocol. Other, older applications use telnet, SMTP, FTP, NNTP etc. Remember: the WWW is more than Facebook, the internet is more than the WWW, computers are more than the internet and there is more to life than computers. The internet is a descendant of Arpanet.

Al Gore? This quote is almost always taken out of context. He never claimed to have made any technical contribution to the internet. What he, rightly, claimed was that he was instrumental in getting legislation passed to provide federal funding for supporting the internet.

By: bystander

bystander — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:13:18 +0000

The web was invented at CERN? I thought Al Gore invented the internet. And what about ARPANET, uunet, etc.