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  • Are the Constants of Physics Constant?

    03/09/2016 6:07:00 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 56 replies
    Scientific American ^ | 7 Mar, 2016 | Venkat Srinivasan
    When Max Born addressed the South Indian Science Association in November 1935, it was a time of great uncertainty in his life. The Nazi Party had already suspended the renowned quantum mechanics physicist's position at the University of Gottingen in 1933. He had been invited to teach at Cambridge, but it was temporary. Then, the Party terminated his tenure at Gottingen in the summer of 1935. Born took up an offer to work with C. V. Raman and his students for six months at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. While there, he found that his family had lost...
  • Microsoft's ill-chosen magic constants [BARF ALERT]

    07/13/2012 8:26:28 PM PDT · by re_nortex · 27 replies
    Dreamwidth (via Fedora) ^ | Jul. 13th, 2012 06:59 pm | mjg59
    Paolo Bonzini noticed something a little awkward in the Linux kernel support code for Microsoft's HyperV virtualisation environment - specifically, that the magic constant passed through to the hypervisor was "0xB16B00B5", or, in English, "BIG BOOBS". It turns out that this isn't an exception - when the code was originally submitted it also contained "0x0B00B135". That one got removed when the Xen support code was ripped out.
  • The Constants They Are A Changin': NIST Posts Latest Adjustments to Fundamental Figures

    08/01/2011 9:06:06 AM PDT · by zeugma · 5 replies
    NIST Beat ^ | July 19, 2011 | Ben Stein
    The Constants They Are A Changin': NIST Posts Latest Adjustments to Fundamental Figures The electromagnetic force has gotten a little stronger, gravity a little weaker, and the size of the smallest "quantum" of energy is now known a little better. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted* the latest internationally recommended values of the fundamental constants of nature. Credit: Mohr,Talbott/NIST View hi-resolution image The constants, which range from relatively famous (the speed of light) to the fairly obscure (Wien frequency displacement law constant) are adjusted every four years in response to the latest scientific measurements and advances....