Category: Physics

Guest post by Dr. J.R. Leibowitz  My book Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art has been cited as among the first serious efforts to address the fundamental connections between physics and art. The question of what unites them invites all of us to some understanding of what is truly basic to these two…

Guest post by Don Lincoln A spark. That’s all it was . . . just a little spark . . . in a vacuum, no less. It sounds so harmless. What could it hurt? Let’s see how the story unfolds. Well, time, which is measured in microseconds at this point, moved on. The spark jumped…

Guest post by John Eric Goff Earth’s greatest sporting event is under way in Brazil with the World Cup, which began last Thursday with a match between the host nation and Croatia. The United States opens play today against Ghana. Just making the final draw is an honor for any country’s national team. For all the hard work…

Guest post by John Eric Goff Earth’s greatest sporting event is under way in Brazil with the World Cup, which began last Thursday with a match between the host nation and Croatia. The United States opens play today against Ghana. Just making the final draw is an honor for any country’s national team. For all the hard work…

Guest post by George Bibel Air France Flight 447, which was lost in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, gives us some insight into why it has been so difficult to recover debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In 2009, investigators were unable to find much debris from Flight 447, and many of the…

Hands down, Albert Einstein was THE giant of the twentieth century, and so it's only appropriate and expected that scholars and laypersons alike would continue to celebrate his life, work, and legacy in books, films, and other works well into the twenty-first century. No slouches here at JHU Press, we've been publishing books about Einstein…

Hands down, Albert Einstein was THE giant of the twentieth century, and so it's only appropriate and expected that scholars and laypersons alike would continue to celebrate his life, work, and legacy in books, films, and other works well into the twenty-first century. No slouches here at JHU Press, we've been publishing books about Einstein…

March roars in with a variety of events suitable for lionizing, and JHU Press authors, editors, and staff will keep busy all month. Stephen H. Grant loved the idea that the official publication date for Collecting Shakespeare would be the Ides of March, and several events around that date welcome his book. At Hunter College,…

Guest post by Dr. Mark Denny Sports science is an expanding industry, judging by the number of scholarly journals out there that are dedicated to one aspect or another of sports. I get emails inviting me to contribute to this or that journal, or to attend specialist conferences on specific topics within the field (sports…

Guest post by John Eric Goff, Ph.D. I take a slight risk with this blog post’s title because the one question I’m most often asked by someone in the media is: aren’t you taking something away from a great athletic moment by subjecting it to scientific analysis? My full-throated response is, “Absolutely not!” Viewing the…