Physics for my Mom

The goal of this blog is to explain what I do so that my mom (and dad) can understand.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Update on my job

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I'm still trying to decide what my next topic should be, but I figured I'd tell everyone a little about what I've been doing in ...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Angular scales from the CMB

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The physics of the CMB is extremely rich, and I won't do it justice in this series of entries. However, I do want to give one example of...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Understanding the CMB

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How do scientists understand the CMB? At this stage, I think we can try to outline the whole process. Over a year ago , I described the CMB...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Back to the CMB

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Over a year ago now (I have been really delinquent), I started talking about the CMB . If you recall, the CMB was like a picture of the univ...

A little more about me and the blog

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I've talked to a few people in the last few weeks who asked me to write a bit more of an introduction to both me and what I'm trying...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Update and future plans

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To all three regular readers of this blog, I apologize for not having posted in several months. By way of explanation, I will say that since...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Fourier analysis - Sines and integrals (part 3)

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We're almost there. Let's talk about two more features of integrals and sine curves. First, (and mom, remember the symbol for "...
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Hugh
I am a postdoc at Fermilab outside of Chicago, studying physics. Over the past few years, I've developed a "cocktail party" version of what I do, and I hope to expand upon that at great length here. The first post and maybe the first several posts will be very general, and then I will delve deeper into the elements of those general posts in detail. I welcome questions and comments if something is not clear or if I am doing something wrong.
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