Listening to the Science Magazine podcast I found out that the black hole depiction (or its effects rather) as shown in the latest film by Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, used the expertise of physicists to create… Read More »Black holes, gravity and film – Depicting gravitational lensing in Interstellar
Hello everyone, once again we have a question coming to the inbox of the Quantum Tunnel blog. If you are interested in asking a question, please feel free to get in touch using this page.… Read More »Quantum Tunnel Answers: Fresnel Lens
This time is not really a question that has arrived to the Quantum Tunnel mailbox, it is rather an observation and some cheers. Let’s take a look: Dear Quantum Tunnel, I have listened to all… Read More »Quantum Tunnel Answers – Interest in Quantum Physics
A few days ago I received a request from a reader (Thanks Paulo Zan) for information about magnetic resonance. The request did not specify more than that so I took the liberty of deciding… Read More »Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
It may sound like a line from Star Trek, but I can assure you that the creation of a beam made out of anti-hydrogen atoms is a real achievement carried out by scientists at CERN.… Read More »Anti-atom beam
So, the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics has been announced. I was surprised they did go for the Higgs, given the potential controversies. In any case, congratulations to Peter Higgs and François Englert for their… Read More »A massive achievement – 2013 Nobel prize in physics
I could not help smiling widely as I was leaving that shop earlier on today… Why? Well, I was there to buy some bits and pieces. I arrived listening to some music and once inside… Read More »I’m a doctor… just not a medical one…
Continuing with the tradition of celebrating scientists birthdays, Google has marked Erwin Schrödinger’s anniversary with a Schrödinger Cat doodle. Erwing Schrödinger was born on August 12th, 1887 in Vienna, Austria. He developed fundamental results in… Read More »Schrödinger Cat Doodle
Time flies, time is money, time is a wise counsellor, time is relative, time is… very hard to define. Paraphrasing St Augustine I can say that I know what time is if no one asks… Read More »Backwards and Forwards in Time
