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Vignette¶Elisabeth Hertz (née Doll) 1864–1941 Widow of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 1857–1894 Professor of Physics, University ...

Published in Physics in Perspective

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics as a Consequence of the Planck Mass Plasma Conjecture

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics

The Planck mass plasma conjecture is the hypothesis that the vacuum of space is a kind of plasma composed of positive and negative Planck mass particles interacting by the Planck force over a Planck length, repulsive for equal and attractive for unequal Planck masses. The hypothesis permits to derive quantum mechanics and Lorentz invariance as asym...

Atom and aether in nineteenth-century physical science

Published in Foundations of Chemistry

This paper suggests that the cases made for atoms and the aether in nineteenth-century physical science were analogous, with the implication that the case for the atom was less than compelling, since there is no aether. It is argued that atoms did not play a productive role in nineteenth-century chemistry any more than the aether did in physics. At...

James MacCullagh 1809 − 1847

Published in The European Physical Journal H

The purpose of this paper is to set out in general terms the life of the Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist James MacCullagh, in its context of place and time. MacCullagh, who was born two hundred years ago in 1809, was best known for his significant contributions to optics and light propagation, and in particular towards the development...

Darshana Jolts

Published in Resonance

Eliminating unscalable communication in transaction processing

Published in The VLDB Journal

Multicore hardware demands software parallelism. Transaction processing workloads typically exhibit high concurrency, and, thus, provide ample opportunities for parallel execution. Unfortunately, because of the characteristics of the application, transaction processing systems must moderate and coordinate communication between independent agents; s...

Probing the quantum vacuum with ultra intense laser pulses

Published in The European Physical Journal Special Topics

This article presents 1) The theoretical background of strong field physics along with vacuum structure and stability; 2) The instrumental developments in the area of pulsed lasers and considers the physics case for the construction of ultra-intense laser facilities; and 3) The applied and fundamental uses of ultra-intense lasers.