Then read about the work of John Thompson and Jacques Tits, who won the 2008 Abel Prize. Learn how to build a group as a layer cake with simple groups as layers. And see an example of a Bruhat-Tits building!
Watch people flying around:
You can read about Shanghai in my diary.
Mike Stay and I just finished writing a big paper: Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone, to appear in Bob Coecke's volume New Structures of Physics.
All the notes for my 2008 course on Hamiltonian mechanics are now available in LaTeX, courtesy of Alex Hoffnung. They still need a lot of polishing...
Check out the rings of Saturn's moon Rhea.
Do you know this world?
Some people hope there's life there.
Here's a nice movie of an Einstein ring:
If you're a mathematician or physicist, please contribute an article to EUREKA Science Journal Watch. This is a wiki on science journals, but so far we only have info on math and physics journals. We're trying to make EUREKA into a catalyst for change. So, if there's a journal with especially good or bad policies and prices, tell the world about it here!
For common questions about physics, you can't beat this:
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Also try my blog at:
If reading my stuff makes you want to ask questions,
take a look at this.
© 2006 John Baez
baez@math.removethis.ucr.andthis.edu
