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Puerto Rican scientists highlighted in “Physics Today”

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Two recent issues of “Physics Today”, a physics journal published by the American Institute of Physics, highlights the work of three local scientists, Drs. Daniel Altschuler, Sixto González and Víctor Blanco.

 

 

 

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El Big Bang, la Inflación y la naturaleza de la ciencia

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Había una canción de salsa muy famosa de Héctor Lavoe que decía “Todo tiene su final. Nada dura para siempre…”. Y es cierto. Pero como toda coordenada lineal el tiempo tiene dos direcciones: una hacia el futuro y otra hacia el pasado. Así que la contraparte temporal de ese aforismo es “Todo tiene su principio. Nada ha existido desde siempre.”

Using sounds to study astrophysics

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Frequently, science teachers ask their students to draw a scientist so that they can get a sense of what students think and imagine about scientists. Thousands and thousands of drawings show the same stereotypical characteristics: a male scientist, white, dressed in a lab coat, usually a chemist mixing liquids and generating explosions, and a person that does not have any physical limitations.

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