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Friday, November 16, 2007

Black-Tie Radiation


Geddit?

Becky  Because of Black Body radiation. Do you see?

Hmm.

This slayed them at the Physics Teacher conference. 
Nicky  Those physics teachers need to get out more.

Also I find it very cool that you have a night vision camera. Slightly disturbing but cool. 
Becky  I don't... I have a camera that can take pictures of screens showing live infra-red pictures. :-P 
Nicky  Not at all disturbing then.
But way less cool. 
Jayne  Hey leave us physicists alone, if it were not for us you would not have nuclear weapons, the electric chair or infra-red detectors! Actually I am a nice physicist, so lots of love,
xXx 
Lynn Jones  Never mind the Physics (Jim), why did you invite the Predator to do your wedding shots? :) 
Zosimus the Heathen  I got it! Ah, good old black body radiation; along with the photoelectric effect, it demolished the smug late 19th Century belief that classical physics was on the verge of explaining every physical phenomenon in the universe (and by doing so helped usher in the era of quantum physics). God, how fucking nerdy am I for knowing that?! Physics rocks! 
Nicky  Zosimus

I think I am right in saying that Einstein got his nobel prize for explaining the photo-electric effect.

Bonus Nerd points for me! 
Zosimus the Heathen  Nicky

Indeed. I don't think many people would be aware of that; most, I'd venture, would assume that Einstein got the Nobel Prize for his much more famous work on relativity. It's sort of ironic he was awarded the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect given his later, notorious, refusal to accept quantum physics. "God does not play dice!" 

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