Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Meet other creatures

Meet them in these scales of a meter:
  • 10^-35:  Quantum gravity domain. Planck's length.
  • 10^-30:
  • 10^-28:
  • 10^-24: Neutrino
  • 10^-21:  Perons, the ingredients of quarks.
  • 10^-18: Quarks. Electron cores.
  • 10^-15: Protons.
  • 10^-14: size of light nuclei.
  • 10^-12: Gamma ray wavelength. 
  • 2*10^-12: electron Compton wavelength.
  • 5*10^-12: X-ray wavelength.
  • 2.5*10^-11: distance between two Hydrogen atom nuclei.
  • 3.1*10^-11: distance between two Helium atom nuclei. 
  • 7.0*10^-11: distance between two Carbon atoms nuclei.  
  • 10^-10: distance between two Sulfure atom nuclei.
  • 5*10^-10: width of Protein alpha Helix.
  • 10^-9 (1 nano meter): Carbon nanotube.
  • 2*10^-9: the smallest transistor gate of microprocessor.
  • 3*10^-9: thickness of DNA.
  • 10*10^-9: the width of cell membrane.
  • 50*10-9: ultraviolate wavelength.
  • 90*10^-9: HIV.
  • 300*10^-9: Violate wavelength.
  • 500*10^-9: largest virus.
  • 600*10^-9: red light wavelength.
  • 7*10^-6 (7 micrometer): red blood cell.
  • 10*10^-6: infrared wavelength. Fog droplet. White blood cell. 
  • 50*10^-6: Pullen grain. Silt particle. 
  • 10^-4 (a tenth of milimeter): smallest things visible to naked eyes. Width of human hair.
  • 2.5*10^-4: human egg. 
  • 3*10^-4: computer pixel.
  • 5*10^-4: salt crystal grain. Thickness of human skin. Largest bacteria. Pencil lead.
  • 7*10^-4: thickness of credit card. 
  • 10^-3: Ant. Sesame. etc. 

Thursday, March 03, 2011

The Fritz London Prize 2011

is happy to hear the Fritz London Prize - highest award in low temperature physics after the nobel - is awarded to Hans Mooij in recognition for his experimental contributions to the understanding of nonequilibrium superconductivity, Josephson flux qubits, etc; at the same time to Gerd Schön in recognition of his theoretical contributions to the understanding of superconductivity in mesoscopic systems, including charge qubit; as well as to Humphrey Maris in recognition for his original theories and experimental discoveries in liquid helium, concerning phonons, Kapitza resistance, levitation, nucleation, electron bubbles and vortex imaging.