Monthly Archives: January 2015

So what’s up with that “slower than light” light?

Posted on January 31, 2015 by skullsinthestars

Over the years, there has been a lot of hype about the possibility of “superluminal” light: namely, light than can travel faster than the vacuum speed of light meters/second, which is overwhelmingly considered the absolute speed limit of the universe.  I’ve talked … Continue reading →

Posted in Optics | 4 Comments

Null-field radiationless sources: even more invisible than invisible?

Posted on January 21, 2015 by skullsinthestars

I spend a lot of time talking about invisibility on this blog, as it is a subject near and dear to me: I did my PhD work, completed in 2001, on early historical forms of invisibility.  I like to tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Invisibility, Optics | 1 Comment

#365papers, part 1!

Posted on January 12, 2015 by skullsinthestars

At the beginning of this year, my friend Jacquelyn Gill (who blogs over at The Contemplative Mammoth) suggested an interesting resolution for academics like us: read at least one scientific paper a day for the entire year.  This has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Physics | 3 Comments

John Blackburn’s Dead Man’s Handle

Posted on January 1, 2015 by skullsinthestars

This post marks a minor personal milestone: with the book featured in it, I have now read all of John Blackburn‘s published works.  I put off reading this one for quite some time for a reason that I’ll explain at the … Continue reading →

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