Eureka! Discovering Your Inner Scientist

2014 Chad Orzel

Seen at Moes Books in early December 2014, borrowed from Cedar Mill Library 1/2015

• Lots of games, media, sports, election, worth skimming, some stories,not to buy for reference
• p29 Cosmic rays, coincidence counter, Alvarez 1932, pyramid 1967
• p81 August 2007 Hanny van Arkel greenish blob voorwerp
• p121 galaxy rotation graph, Vera Rubin 1968
• p140 dinosaurs balance, tails straight back, because of no fossils of tail draging
• p177 gravity balance at MIT, subway magnetic fields interfere
• p211 "The secret (of science) is comprised in three words - work, finish, publish.
• p231 Feynmann diagrams, add loops with probability 1/137
• p245 Orzel does AMO, Atomic Molecular Optical atoms 1e-6 Kelvin
• p248 CERN Compact Muon Solenoid, 600 petabytes saved
• CERN - all 3000 scientists on paper, procedures to build and vet papers
• p322 APS division members: AMO=3000, Particles=3500, Concdensed Matter=6000