misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | science, mathematics, research, theoretical physics, particle physics, physicsThis is not an Onion article :-)
Quoted: Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."
Quoted: Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
Here is the paper for you theoretical physicists out there- http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 09 2007 | physics, technology, Nobel Prize, science, research
Quoted: The two scientists discovered a phenomenon called giant magnetoresistance. In this effect, very weak changes in magnetism generate larger changes in electrical resistance. This is how information stored magnetically on a hard disk can be converted to electrical signals that the computer reads.
Smaller disks mean fainter magnetic signals, so the ability to detect them is key to shrinking hard disks.
