Gravity May Play a Tiny But Important Role in The Microworld of Particle Physics
21 FEBRUARY 2021
Launch yourself from a great enough height and it won t take long to see which would win in a battle between gravity and the forces that bind solid ground.
Gravity s relative weakness, at least compared to the strength of electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, appears to limits its power to phenomena on the vast scales of planets and galaxies.
For this reason, together with the challenge of marrying general relativity with quantum physics, physicists tend to hand-wave gravity s role in the formation of particles by fudging it with a rather arbitrary correction factor.
Barbed-Wire Police Protest Lands Russian Performance Artist in Jail Feb. 8, 2021 Pavel Krisevich was detained for locking himself in a barbed-wire ball to protest the police state. Screenshot YouTube / Georgy Markov
A Russian performance artist has been jailed a second time for attempting to stage a barbed-wire stunt in protest of police overreach in central Moscow last month, the OVD-Info police-monitoring website reported Monday.
Authorities detained Pavel Krisevich on Sunday immediately after he finished serving a two-week administrative arrest on charges of disobeying police orders with the stunt on Old Arbat Street, a popular pedestrian zone.
Активист Павел Крисевич получил 25 суток за акцию в шаре из колючей проволоки на Старом Арбатеhttps://t.co/HFosSeTiMR
Footage of Krisevich’s Jan. 24 detention shows him screaming “do
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This book puts the trade war between the United States and China in historical context. Exploring the dynamics of isolation and internal reform from a Chinese perspective, the author draws upon valuable insights from China s years of isolation prior to the famous Nixon-Mao summit. Advocating internal reform as a more productive strategy than conflict with other powers, this powerful argument for globalization with Chinese characteristics will be of interest to scholars of China, economists, and political scientists.