For decades, hundreds of writers have developed analyses and conjectures about how Albert Einstein formulated his special theory of relativity of 1905. I will summarize and critique certain provocative and influential accounts, and will also describe neglected aspects of the process. Which experiments...

Sound propagation in water-saturated granular sediments is known to depend on the sediment porosity, but few data in the literature address both the fre- quency and porosity dependency. To begin to address this deficiency, a flu- idized bed technique was used to control the porosity of an artificial...

We conduct laboratory experiments and direct numerical simulations on internal gravity waves generated by tidal flow over a model three-dimensional Gaussian mountain on the sea floor. When 2? < N (where ? is the tidal frequency and N is the buoyancy frequency), the flow generates second harmonic internal...

The presentation will concentrate on recent applications of Penning traps in atomic and nuclear physics with exotic ions, namely high-accuracy mass measurements of short-lived radionuclides, g-factor determinations of the bound-electron in highly-charged, hydrogen-like ions and g-factor measurements...

Optical clock-transitions such as the ones in Ytterbium are prime candidates for encoding qubits for quantum information processing applications due to very low decoherence rates. In this work, we investigate the challenges involved in using these prime candidates for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics....