Physics
- BICEP2, cosmic inflation, pre-Big Bang, SST, galactic effects...
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Do BICEP2 data provide a proof of cosmic inflation? As early as March 17, a Stanford report asserted « New evidence from space supports Stanford physicist's theory of how universe began ». ...
Blog Post - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Aug 29 2014 - 7:23am
- Tantalum Isomer Blurs The Boundaries Of Existence
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Identifying the full extent of the nuclear landscape, essentially how many isotopes exist, is vital for nuclear physics. There is a lot left to learn. Beyond the stable nuclei that we find on Earth, there are many unstable nuclei that are formed in stellar ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 8:42am
- Quantum Turbulence- A Mystery Of Physics Without A Public Relations Campaign
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The confirmation of the Higgs boson and what it can tell us about the origins of mass is getting all of the attention but there are scientific mysteries about less-understood forces that may also be keys to figuring out natural laws. Among these is quantu ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 11:01am
- Immortal Unbounded Universe
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Our universe is eternal, expanding indefinitely, and not threatened by any form of 'heath death'. All evidence points into this direction. In fact, at the end of the nineteenth century Ludwig Boltzmann had collected all the evidence to draw such ...
Article - Johannes Koelman - Apr 22 2014 - 12:48pm
- A Crack In The Cosmic Egg- What Does The Cosmic Inflation Discovery Really Mean?
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Last month, scientists announced the first hard evidence for cosmic inflation, the process by which the infant universe swelled from microscopic to cosmic size in an instant. While this almost unimaginably fast expansion was theorized more than three deca ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 5:34pm
- Liquid Spacetime- The Fluid Flow Of General Relativity?
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Quantum mechanics is able to effectively explain three of the four fundamental forces of the Universe- electromagnetism, weak interaction and strong interaction- but it does not explain gravity, which is currently only accounted for by general relativity, ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 9:07am
- Condensed Matter Physics Pitches In To Help Quantum Gravity
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Relativity says that spacetime is smooth, and only big things can warp it, in ways that are exactly known. Quantum theory says that the smallest parts of the universe are constantly fluctuating and dramatically uncertain. How can something be both smooth a ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 10:30pm
- Red Stars Have Big Bulges: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
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The universe we can see is made up of billions of galaxies, each containing anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of stars. Large numbers of galaxies are elliptical in shape, red and mostly made up of old stars. Another (more familiar ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2014 - 5:30am
- The Science Is Not Settled Memristor Edition
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A rare opportunity, a look behind the curtains of "scientific peer review" corrupting science; moreover, revealing sniffs of the swamp that is the established community publishing on memristors- another case of hype in science, but the implicati ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 10 2016 - 10:57pm
- Boosted Z-> bb Seen By ATLAS!
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I was delighted today, as I checked the page of public ATLAS results, to find a very beautiful new result. The signal ATLAS found and just published on the arxiv is not one anybody could doubt to be there: no surprise whatsoever. And yet, it is a difficult ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 4 2014 - 11:03am