Swans on Tea

I just read that the Chicago Bulls won the NBA draft lottery, meaning that the team with the worst record did not gain the first overall pick in the draft. Color me shocked. It was termed a “surprise” in some stories. Maybe it was a surprise that they won it, but not [...]

Zapperz, back from vacation, notes that Willis Lamb passed away recently. The Lamb shift, the energy splitting of the 2s and 2p states of the hydrogen atom, was a huge confirmation of quantum electrodynamics and garnered him the Nobel prize, and you can read more about that here. But that’s not the only [...]