Archive for January, 2007
How you became the web
January 3rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
“Time” magazine’s “Man of the Year” for 1982 was not a man at all but a machine – the computer. In those days, computers were in very few homes, hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, and the World Wide Web did not exist. In 1999, “Time” magazine’s “Person of the Year” (notice the gender […]
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How many fundamental particles are there?
January 2nd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
So far, we know of 16 elementary or fundamental particles – and they have wonderful names. There are 12 fermions: quarks — up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top; and leptons — electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino. Then there are 4 gauge bosons – gluon, W and Z bosons, photon. But there […]
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Dear diary …
January 1st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Another year, another diary … In this weekend’s Observer” newspaper, there was an article about how and why various people keep diaries, since this is the time of year when many individuals first start writing a personal diary. I can certainly identify with this. I’ve been keeping a diary since I was 13 and I’ve […]
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