World Year of Physics Opens with Paris Conference About 1000 physicists and physics students gathered in Paris for the "Physics for Tomorrow" conference, officially kicking off the World Year of Physics.
Speaking at the recent AAPT meeting in Albuquerque, Astronaut Don Pettit reads the names of winning high school teachers in the World Year of Physics reduced-gravity competition. The six winning teams of three teachers each will fly aboard NASA's "weightless wonder" parabolic aircraft later this year to perform experiments in microgravity.
