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March 2009

Volume 62, Issue 3

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Physics in the oil sands of Alberta

Murray Gray, Zhenghe Xu, and Jacob Masliyah
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Alberta's petroleum reserves are comparable to Saudi Arabia's, but accessing that oil poses challenges in the physics of fluids and particulates.
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Testing relativity from the 1919 eclipse—a question of bias

Daniel Kennefick
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When interpreting experimental results, context is everything. The researchers who took and analyzed the most important eclipse data had good reasons for judging the experiment a victory for Albert Einstein.

Laser-driven plasma-wave electron accelerators

Wim Leemans and Eric Esarey
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Surfing a plasma wave, a bunch of electrons or positrons can experience much higher accelerating gradients than a conventional RF linac could provide.
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Hip bone is connected to…II

Leo P. Kadanoff
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Hanbury Brown and Twiss: Important, anti‐weird, beautiful

Donald C. Morton, Markus Büttiker, Vittorio Degiorgio, and Daniel Kleppner
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Important groundwork in opsin evolution studies

Christian H. Fritsen
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Volume's effect on volume

Jerry Hyde and Erica Ryherd
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Galaxy clusters tighten constraints on the cosmic accelerator

Charles Day
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Evidence from clusters and elsewhere suggests that the universe's accelerated expansion is driven by something that behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant.

Newborn babies feel the beat

Johanna Miller
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Oscillating chemistry explains complex, self‐assembled crystal aggregates

Mark Wilson
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Leaflike sheets, wormy ropes, and helical filaments are just some of the shapes that can emerge, under the right conditions, from inorganic compounds.

Physics Update

Jermey N. A. Matthews and Mark Wilson
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Physicists in forensics

Toni Feder
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From faulty products to murder, physicists help figure out what really happened.
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Accelerators shrink to meet growing demand for proton therapy

Jermey N. A. Matthews
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Smaller, cheaper accelerators promise to make proton radiation therapy available to more cancer patients.

Brookhaven light source to brighten x‐ray beams

David Kramer
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Leading European synchrotron also approves a seven‐year upgrade.

North Carolina institute offers to archive old astronomy data

Toni Feder
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Is digitizing astronomical photographic plates worth the time and money?

FutureGen could make a comeback

David Kramer
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News Notes

David Kramer and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art and Physics in the Arts

J. R. Leibowitz, P. U. P. A. Gilbert, W. Haeberli, and Eric J. Heller, Reviewer
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Brian Fagan and James R. Fleming, Reviewer
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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Steven Shapin and Jay A. Labinger, Reviewer
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Lie Groups, Physics, and Geometry: An Introduction for Physicists, Engineers, and Chemists

Robert Gilmore and Peter J. Olver, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Kurt Gottfried, Saul Teukolsky, and Ira Wasserman
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The extraordinary sound of the hang

Andrew Morrison and Thomas D. Rossing
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Artificial lightning

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