Physics

As we near the first week of July, with the start of the International Conference of High-Energy Physics in Melbourne (July 2nd-8th) and the July 4th press release at CERN on the new results of Higgs boson searches by ATLAS and CMS, the attention to new pa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 26 2012 - 12:15pm

The Ontology of Quaternions as an 8 Dimensional [Proto-]Vector Space

[I changed the title of this blog to prepend Proto to vector space since a vector space is defined over a mathematical field. While I explored the possibility that the positive real numbers might make up a mathematical field, that effort did not pan out. ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 3 2012 - 11:30am

The Quote of the Week

"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement" Lord Kelvin, 1900 ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 26 2012 - 6:41am

Gauge Theory, Maxwell's equations, and the Maxwellian

There is an important difference related to the mathematical formulation of Self-Field Theory (SFT) and that is the complete absence of gauge. We know from the various quantum theories that gauge plays a crucial role. To understand this difference we must ...

Blog Post - Tony Fleming - Jun 28 2012 - 3:33pm

Basic Education For Particle Hunters: Significance And Rate Error

I am endlessly amazed by observing, time and again, that even experienced colleagues fall in the simplest statistical traps. Mind you, I do not claim to be any better- sorry, let me rephrase: to have been any better in the early days of my career as an exp ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2012 - 9:18am

Ideas On Higgs Couplings

A very interesting paper appeared one week ago in the Arxiv. It is titled " Higgs Self-Coupling Measurements at the LHC ", and it is authored by M.Dolan, C.Englert, and M.Spannovsky. The idea is that once and if a Higgs boson is found at the LHC, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2012 - 9:17am

A 2.5 Sigma Higgs Signal From The Tevatron!

Robbing the LHC experiments of media attention for 41 hours, the CDF and DZERO experiments are presenting today the results of their searches of the Higgs boson in the full datasets of proton-antiproton collisions acquired in the course of the last 10 year ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2012 - 9:17am

Preparations For The Higgs Seminar At CERN

By now it's been written on so many newspapers and magazines-including Nature (the magazine, not the bitch)- that if a colleague of mine tries to reproach me for writing about the impending seminar at CERN, where ATLAS and CMS are vented to be showing ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2012 - 2:21pm

Higgs Boson, Where Is The Queue?

5.30 AM. Getting in at CERN through the B entrance I see no living soul. "Ha"-I tell myself- "I have been worrying too much". 5.36 AM. But the people is all here since last night! There is a huge queue of 180 people already, extending f ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2012 - 11:56pm

Higgs Live Blogging 2- Observation Versus Discovery: Myths And Truths

This is the second post of a series of blogs that I am writing this morning, July 4th, to describe the ongoing happenings at CERN, where at 9AM the Higgs boson Observation will be announced by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Please reload this page at 10 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2012 - 11:56pm