Physics
- Photos of Physicists In Their Environments
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Just a quick link to allow you to browse a very nice set of pictures taken at CERN by Andri Pol. The subjects are physicists in their daily activities- brainstorming at the blackboard, cycling around the lab, bitching about the mess in the common coffee ro ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 2 2013 - 2:28pm
- The True (but modest) Heroes of Microworld
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I'm speaking of bare particles. "Heroes" is maybe too pathetic, but blocks or "bricks" would be OK since everything is made of them despite their being non-observable. Why are they non-observable? Because they are non-interacting ...
Blog Post - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Dec 9 2013 - 8:10am
- I Am Writing A Book
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Inspired by my friend Peter Woit's openness in discussing his work in progress (a thick textbook on the foundations of quantum mechanics), I feel compelled to come out here about my own project. ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 4 2013 - 9:31am
- The Quote Of The Week- Higgs On Anderson's Role In The Higgs Mechanism
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"During the years 1962 to 1964 a debate developed about whether the Goldstone theorem could be evaded. Anderson pointed out that in a superconductor the Goldstone mode becomes a massive plasmon mode due to its electromagnetic interaction, and that th ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 5 2013 - 12:51pm
- Top Partners Wanted
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No, this is not an article about top models. Rather, the subject of discussion are models that predict the existence of heavy partners of the top quark. ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2013 - 6:14am
- Big Crunch Beta Functions: The End Of The Universe Is Closer Than You Think
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It could be in a billion years, it could start tomorrow, but physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball. Like a lot of things, it just takes a little mathematics ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 1:33pm
- 3 MeV? You Must Be Kidding Me?!
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In 1989 the CDF experiment was sitting on its first precious bounty of proton-antiproton collisions, delivered by the Tevatron collider at the unprecedented energy of 1.8 TeV. One of the first measurements that was produced was the measurement of the mass ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 17 2013 - 1:31am
- Ultrafast Pot Boils Water In A Trillionth Of A Second- Now You Just Have To Build It
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Want to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second? Now you can, if you are at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and can find someone to build your theoretical concept. Still, heating water 600 degrees Celsius in just half a picosec ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2013 - 12:06pm
- The Quote Of The Week- Physics Analysis Organization
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"The senior signs the paper, the post-doc thinks, and the grad student executes" F.S., explaining how the typical nucleus of analysis group in HEP works. ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 19 2013 - 5:10am
- Electron's Roundness Throws A Curve At Supersymmetry
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Physicists at Yale and Harvard have thrown a new curve at Supersymmetry, the popular hypothesis about what lies beyond physics' reigning model of fundamental forces and particles, the Standard Model. And it involves the electron's almost perfect ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2013 - 6:30am
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