Comments for Protons for Breakfast Blog http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com Making sense of science Mon, 13 May 2013 10:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Getting ready for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition by H Stiles (@HStiles1) http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/getting-ready-for-the-royal-society-summer-science-exhibition/#comment-5429 Mon, 13 May 2013 10:03:39 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3927#comment-5429 Not qiute a klaxon that you have there but did you know it was invented by Miller Reese Hutchison (1876-1944) who produced the first wearable hearing aid?! The UCL ear Institute did a display/participation there a couple of years ago & I went. The RS is very good about public ‘outreach’ as it is called these days – I would encourage people to take children.

]]> Comment on Watching Earth Breathe by protonsforbreakfast http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/watching-earth-breath/#comment-5411 Sun, 12 May 2013 18:36:12 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3932#comment-5411 Ooops. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Watching Earth Breathe by Nick Day http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/watching-earth-breath/#comment-5409 Sun, 12 May 2013 18:06:34 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3932#comment-5409 Breath -> Breathe?

]]> Comment on Getting ready for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition by protonsforbreakfast http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/getting-ready-for-the-royal-society-summer-science-exhibition/#comment-5404 Sun, 12 May 2013 08:12:10 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3927#comment-5404 You should definitely go. I find the ‘class’ associations difficult, but hey ho – I just take a deep breath and try to keep calm.

I don’t know if it is all booked up but there are ‘school days’ specifically for teachers to bring entire classes – there is more information on the web site.

Hope to see you there

M

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]]> Comment on Getting ready for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition by Edmond Hui http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/getting-ready-for-the-royal-society-summer-science-exhibition/#comment-5401 Sun, 12 May 2013 06:17:43 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3927#comment-5401 I’ve never actually been to the RS- my spiritual home if ever there was one, so I’ll try to be there!

]]> Comment on Negative temperatures do not exist by David http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/negative-temperatures-do-not-exist/#comment-5346 Thu, 09 May 2013 18:30:40 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3640#comment-5346 I agree with you Michael. Let me add that in a laser you only need to violate one assumption of thermodynamics to get to negative temperatures: the ensemble of atoms in a laser is in a (nonequilibrium) STEADY state. As long as a laser is switched on population inversion is maintained.

In the optical lattice system not even that is true. The atoms in their experiment will eventually redistribute outwards due to the external potential. That might take a very long time (much longer than their experiment), but nevertheless the state is not even steady. I don’t understand all the hype about this work. They’re just using 1/T=dS/dE in a nonequilibrium system, but the equation is derived under the assumption of equilibrium between two subsystems.

]]> Comment on Copy this! by Jonathan Sanderson http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/copy-this/#comment-5311 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:21:03 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3919#comment-5311 Er… thanks. Odd. I’m not peeved at all – being invisible is part of the deal with being a TV producer, and besides, I was only part of the team that came up with the jelly baby wave machine. I don’t think I had anything to do with that electric motor, though I wish I had. I’m delighted if both are seeing more widespread use, via whatever route.

No idea what the tweet/pingback/whatever was. Alom’s written something about all this recently, but it’s not published yet (partly because I need to water down claims he makes about me). How strange.

Love the massive wave machine. :-)

]]> Comment on Amazing Dice: Rediscovering surprise by What Is The Luckiest Number in Dice? Fun with Grandchildren | New Grandmas Rock! http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/amazing-dice-rediscovering-surprise/#comment-5263 Fri, 03 May 2013 10:01:14 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3653#comment-5263 [...] Amazing Dice: Rediscovering surprise [...]

]]> Comment on The Alom Shaha Motor by Whose demo is it? - ScienceDemo.org http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/the-alom-shaha-motor/#comment-5225 Thu, 02 May 2013 12:24:13 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3017#comment-5225 [...] would really like to take credit for “The Alom Shaha Motor” and “Alom Shaha’s jellybaby wave machine” because they’re two of my favorite demonstrations [...]

]]> Comment on Cosmic rays surprise us again by gdw100 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/cosmic-rays-surprise-us-again/#comment-5133 Wed, 01 May 2013 08:37:00 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3818#comment-5133 Reblogged this on garywilliamsblog.

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