Who says science can’t be fun sometimes?
Asteroid 2005 YU55, a giant rock floating through space, looks like a giant rock floating through space, reports one astronomer, who observed the giant rock as it floated through space past the Earth on Tuesday.
Following up on my last post, here’s another example of beautifully clear writing:
The interferometers now being developed to detect gravitational vaves work by measuring small changes in the positions of free masses. There has been a controversy whether quantum-mechanical radiation-pressure fluctuations disturb this measurement. This Letter resolves the controversy: They do.
This was brought to my attention in the PSU colloquium this week by Dan Stamper-Kurn.
Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Probably not.
I know “best” is meant as a joke, but seriously, we need more writing like this. The title poses the question and the abstract answers it, short and to-the-point and completely comprehensible.
Courtesy of the Improbable Research blog.