A few weeks ago I noticed an article that appeared on physorg.com, which is a great resource of everything science related, titled, “Black Holes Made of Light.” A few weeks ago I glossed over this article as it seems there are always papers published where a physicist has stopped light or in fact reversed it. [...]
The What. A large part of part of scientific research involves the principles of optical and atomic physics through laser-driven saturated absorption spectroscopy. In this experiment a single laser is split to provide both a pump and probe beam to examine the absorption spectra of a vapor cell containing primarily rubidium85 and rubidium87 as shown: [...]
Last semester I enrolled in a game design class using Microsoft’s XNA framework. It was a long road, but in roughly three months my partners and I went from absolutely no engine to a complete and playable game which we presented in front of roughly a hundred people. Is it fun? We hope so! The [...]
Free communication to anyone in the world has been a dream of humanity since the division of fire signals. Thanks to technological advances, society is approaching this ideal rapidly, with the help of Skype. Since its introduction, Skype has served 100 billion minutes worth of Skype-to-Skype calls to users across the globe. In comparison to [...]