Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Oct 16th, 2009
I tell my students that if they can discover a magnetic monopole, then they will receive a Nobel Prize in Physics. An article published recently in Science discusses experiments that seem to have uncovered the elusive magnetic monopole. Why is this important? Why is this news not quite as exciting as you might think?
Mar 9th, 2009
WordPress, which powers the blog, has been upgraded to v2.7.1. Next up will be the forum software. I’m still toying with the idea of going with WordPress MU. I like the new theme because it fits with my simplistic web ideology. Obviously, the image to the left will be updated with a more appropriate image [...]
Mar 1st, 2009
The site is now moved on to the new servers. If you are reading this post, then the DNS stuff has propagated. Of course, there are still MANY little bugs due to the move. One that I know of is LaTeX is not working in the forms. I’m sure more will surface. The good news [...]
Jun 25th, 2008
Our PR people here at Longwood are pretty good. A few days ago, I mentioned the short blurb about our NSF grant in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On Monday, the Lynchburg News & Advance listed me among the “Movers and Shakers” in the central Virginia area. My colleagues will probably not be too happy [...]
Jun 17th, 2008
It appears that the press release issued by Longwood concerning the grant I was recently awarded was picked up by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Farmville A Longwood University physics professor and two colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a research project that could help improve technology for high-density optical [...]
A proposal that a few colleagues and I submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been recommended for funding by the Division of Materials Research. One of the PIs on the grant is my former dissertation adviser and some of the proposed work involves using a novel combination of techniques that I developed in [...]
Jan 18th, 2008
I have been missing for a long time. Last year I was busy writing and defending a dissertation. Then I got a new job. I’ve moved, had a baby and started a new career in the span of six months. Hopefully you understand my absence. However, the long neglect of ilovephysics.com is officially over. I [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
I was almost fooled by a Nigerian scam. The method used is actually interesting and shows how sophisticated scammers have become. I post this here to alert others in a position similar to mine. The summary: if you receive an unsolicited email asking for you to send some item to Africa, then RUN, RUN, RUN [...]