Physics

God Does NOT Play Dice But Einstein Is Still Wrong

Einstein infamously said, and he said so many times, that god does not play dice.   He said this in order to refute indeterminism, and therefore, we cannot say that he was correct:  The meaning he intended to communicate was probably wrong (depending on y ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 5 2013 - 12:56am

Top Pair Resonances Search, Full CDF Statistics

The top quark is the heaviest of the six known hadron constituents, discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995.  Because of its quite large mass-over forty times more than the second-heaviest bottom quark- and because of a few additional interest ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2012 - 6:51am

What Is The Geometry Of Spacetime? — What Kinds Of Inner-Products/Metrics?

We ended the second article in this series with the audacious claim that we have obtained the METRIC. 1   Quite frankly, I expected to hear a howl of protest to my brazen assertion that we had actually gotten so far.  We certainly hadn't obtained anyt ...

Article - David Halliday - Apr 19 2013 - 2:37pm

Super-B Factory Killed!

Update: I got a confirmation that at the latest INFN board of directors meeting the news was given that the Super-B factory to be built outside Rome is no more. Super-B joins other remarkable projects in high-energy physics-notably the SSC, the American 4 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 27 2012 - 4:55pm

The Quote of the Week: Richter on Blind Analyses

" While looking for the decay pi+->  e+ nu_e, we focused all our attention on reducing backgrounds, since a prior experiment had set a limit at the level of 10^-6 on the branching ratio. When we heard that an experiment at CERN had seen a signal ar ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2012 - 4:49am

Quantum Galaxy: NGC 1277

Black holes are again hitting the headlines. Another record super massive black hole has been unveiled. This time it is galaxy NGC 1277 at the center of which a true monster is discovered to be lurking. Dutch astronomer Remco van den Bosch and co-workers w ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 2 2012 - 12:52pm

Mu2E: Exploring Lepton Flavour Violation At Fermilab

The conceptual design report of the Mu2E experiment at Fermilab is out in the arxiv for you to browse. Mind you- it is a rather thick document, 562 pages in all, so if all you have is 15' of lunch break you have better try something lighter. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 3 2012 - 5:52pm

Blackbody Radiation Shift: Quantum Thermodynamics Will Redefine Clocks

Even in deep space, atoms feel the the cosmic microwave background left over by the Big Bang. The cosmos is filled with electromagnetic interactions that show atoms they are not alone. Stray electric fields, like from a nearby electronic device, will also ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 6:00am

Opera's Final Word On Opera's Superluminal Neutrinos

A new preprint is out in the arxiv today, detailing the results of a new analysis of neutrino speeds performed by the OPERA collaboration using proton spills of the CNGS beam produced during dedicated runs in May this year. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2012 - 7:29pm

How To Split Black Holes

Ask a physicist how to split a black hole, and you will receive the reply " That's impossible ". Ask for further clarification, and you will get a lecture on black hole thermodynamics. ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 16 2012 - 4:26am