Of course I cannot predict the future and so have no more idea what the future of physics will be than you do. But I have been reading some interesting blog posts and newspaper articles. I will give links and some comments, and you can make up your mind about the future of physics.
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I am looking at my laptop screen and keyboard through glasses with high index lenses. I am very short sighted so without lenses made from high-refractive-index plastic, my glasses would look a bit like bottle tops. There is a list of lens materials here. The index is a measure of how much the light is bent […]
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Next academic year it looks likely that I will, for the first time, be teaching some thermodynamics. Then we will have new software that will allow us to offer an annotated list of links to books, webpages, YouTube videos, etc, integrated into the homepage of the course. One of my fave cool thermodynamic effects is […]
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Over the weekend, I read the previous entry on this blog. It’s a post by my ex-PhD Student Emma, who having done a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics here at Surrey, is now working in climate change analysis at the London School of Economics. One shouldn’t really be surprised to find physicists in such places. […]
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