The baseball postseason is the most exciting time to be a fan of our great national pastime. Every pitch and every swing of the bat can potentially bring glory or ruin to an entire team of hard working ballplayers, to say nothing of the cardiac damage done to the hearts of the millions of fans […]

We can take solace in the utter predictably of certain principles in the cache of physics: Newton’s 2nd law, Fermat’s Principle of Least Time, and the BEC-BCS Crossover (if you recognize the first two but thought the third was related to the ranking of national college football teams, please head quietly to the back of […]

As the proud representatives for 34 percent of America’s dairy farmers, we would like to take the time to briefly address baseball fans across the nation . A troubling level of dairy intolerance is sweeping Major League Baseball, culminating in the unfortunate suspension of a milk-loving batboy for reasons that our organization feels are completely […]

The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr once said: “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet”. Clearly, Bohr was never a dedicated fan of the game of baseball, for if he had been, he would have been impelled to revise his statement. While engaging in my nightly ritual of concertedly flipping […]

I recently returned from a conference in Europe, where all of the continent is busily anticipating this year’s installment of the Tour de France. It is not only the world’s most physically demanding race, but is also the finest and most elegant example of raw physics at work in modern sport. The bicycle — the […]

Last weekend, I found myself in Chicago with a free Sunday evening. (I had been presenting at the AAPT conference, and moderating a panel discussion at the University of Chicago in charming Hyde Park.) So, as is often my wont, I wended my way up to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubbies play against […]