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So I just came back from what is probably the world's largest annual gathering of physicists, the American Physical Society's March Meeting. There were over 7000 presentations, and mine was one of them.
It does not cover all topics of physics, mainly just those that are funded the most extensively and have the most immediate applications to technology.
If you have any questions, ask them itt and I will try to answer them. Results may vary.
when is CERN going to destroy the world?
What was the topic of your presentation?
Was it well received?
Did you come on that guy's face?
PARTICLE PHYSICS IS COVERED IN THE APRIL MEETING, NOT THE MARCH MEETINGQuote:
Originally Posted by coqauvin
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1) enhancement of fluorescence through plasmon resonances in ag nanostructuresQuote:
Originally Posted by simonj
2) Yeah I think so. I actually gave my presentation right before some famous guy whose presentation generated a lot of interest, so I had a huge audience.
3) Actually, he came in my mouth.
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um what's the future of phsyics?
are most of the presentations really only 12 minutes long? or is the structure more geared towards individual questioning
I'm pretty jealous, I would love to go to that conference.
What field of physics is like the "it" field? The one that gets most funded etc.
That's a really broad question...Quote:
Originally Posted by YouBoo
Well....
*There's a big effort to try to develop hydrogen storage techniques for hydrogen-based energy.
*Graphene is the "flavor of the month" topic. (Graphene is a single sheet of graphite with unusual electronic properties.)
*A lot of physics is being devoted towards biology (fluorescence microscopy, understanding locomotion in biological systems etc.)
Err, there's more too...
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Um the structure is geared toward fitting in over 7000 presentations in 4.5 days?Quote:
Originally Posted by mutton
Because of the time constraint, pretty much only one result can be presented with minimal background explanation.
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The field that gets funded the most is condensed matter physics, as it has the most immediate impact on technology. This is nothing new.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy
As I said above, the fotm topic is graphene.
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So I totally just wikid this and found out that I understand 98% of all of this thanks to my recent semiconductor class.Quote:
Originally Posted by sycld
Will you name some of the brightest minds of today's physics, professor?
There's just one thing that I still don't understand:
Did Lard Ass have to pay anything to be in the pie-eating contest?
Legend has it that a former king of the Geats was resurrected, had the the "y" and the "c" in his name accidentally transposed, gone gay, and is now a mediocre engineering student who will go on to become the greatest physicist of his generation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage
The end times are soon to follow.
$110 for students.Quote:
Originally Posted by gorefinger
Was it as boring as the women leadership conference?
No, it was fucking awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadia
Here are some more hot topics that have come to mind:
*Metamaterials with engineered structure on a sub-wavelength scale that can be used for aberration-free super-lensing (where sub-wavelength features can be distinguished) and cloaking
*Organic photovoltaics. They are far cheaper than amorphous silicon solar cells, though their efficiency is currently lower. Nonetheless, their incredibly low cost still make them useful in certain applications, and if their efficiency can be increased, they will drastically reduce the cost of solar cells. I thought I heard somewhere that organic photovoltaics could in theory have a much higher efficiency than amorphous silicon could achieve.
Does anyone still care about physics now that we've discovered how to blow ourselves up?
(Correct answer is no)
Has physics found a way to get Stephen Hawking laid? (if the answer is no physics has failed)
Not true; physics will keep on being relevant until we've developed a portable matter disintegrating ray.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmosfear
Actually, Stephan Hawking managed to cheat on his wife after he was wheelchair bound. Don't ask me how...Quote:
Originally Posted by sponge
if you have sex with your quantum doppler twin from a parallel universe, is it gay?
Obviously it's gay but is it incest?
you sure sound like a smarty pants, make lots of money? take me shopping? lolzQuote:
Originally Posted by sycld
He's poor as hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by YouBoo
whoaa, dont jump right in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by YouBoo
pay him a compliment, stroke his ego first. then ask for stuff
ego=penis always works
Sure, but you must be my lover for a night first.Quote:
Originally Posted by YouBoo
Shhhhh, shuuuut uuuuup....Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy
sycld, YouBoo is a girl if I recall correctly, you wouldn't be interested.
Also, nerd
Hawking has Kids right?
Man I need to start reading more science books, Last 2 I read were Oxygen and Darwin's Black Box...
I haven't read shit about physics in years.
read The Tao of Physics
It is awesome, but pretty dense at parts.
read up on the LHC and the Higgs Boson, its awesome.
Or the fusion technologies like the Kstar and the Z machine, they're rediculously cool and nerdylicious
http:///www.treehugger.com/z-machine-jj.jpg
gotta love those x-rays
Man, if I was on acid I could never turn my head away from that.Quote:
Originally Posted by sailor jack
i havent turned my head since posting it {lie}, and im not even on acid {lie}
When will portal black holes replace garbage cans?
What are the physics of my tummy?
A digesting cheeseburger washed down with a diet coke.
I haven't had a cheeseburger since I went to the restaurant on saturday afternoon. I would think it's passed through by now.
I was just making a general assumption, which I clearly failed on.
But I am sure there is some horrid disgusting food item making it around one of the many twists and turns of your abdomen.
the only things i ate yesterday were some graham crackers, stuffed shells, and garlic bread.
Nice source of sugar and fat right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
:rolleyes:
Sugar, spice, and everything nice. I hope you only ate moderate portions versus shoving your face full of food.
I had about 6 graham crackers(broken apart graham crackers), three stuffed shells(they weren't extra-mondo-super shells), and one slice of garlic bread that was approximately 1/2 inch thick.
What about your midnight snack? I know you had one.
Back in the day I used to buy a box of graham crackers and a vat of cheesecake filling and consumed them both in their entirety in one sitting by dipping whole sheets of graham cracker into the cheesecake filling, chomping, and repeating.
sycld, what would we get if we fired you at that caga tio in the LHC?
The graham crackers were the snack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kal El
I would just always dip mine in milk personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
um sorry i don't think the LHC has a caga tio beam line....Quote:
Originally Posted by sailor jack
Oh but a Sycld line comes as standard?