Archive for August 15th, 2006
The scientific content of this post is due to ‘Chris at Berkeley,’ who prefers to ‘remain mysterious’ rather than have his name printed.
Artist’s rendition of the threat.
I just had a very entertaining conversation with fellow UCB first year Chris, who described some theories where our universe sits in a metastable ground state that breaks supersymmetry. [...]
Filed under: Just for Fun, Physics, Student Life | 1 Comment
Three years ago Science Magazine published an article by Robert F. Service titled “Is Berkeley Past Its Prime?” that questioned UC Berkeley’s place among the elite physics schools in the country. The university that was home to Robert Oppenheimer and the birthplace of Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron, it claimed, has started to lose the luster it [...]
Filed under: Berkeley and Stanford, Opinion, Physics | 2 Comments
