Physics

Can You Find This San Francisco Chronicle Article For Me?

At the workshop I attended last week ("Publish, blog, tweet- furthering one's career in science") I discussed blogging for a researcher. One of the points I made was that through a blog a researcher may sometimes ask for the help of his or h ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2014 - 1:46pm

The Quote Of The Week- A Between-The-Lines Accusation Of Scientific Fraud

"Fermilab has very actively tried to scoop us by press release, even though their uncertainties are under serious challenge and they knew our measurements even before they released theirs." Michael Riordan, a member to the Mark II collaboration, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 7 2014 - 9:13am

Time Dilation And Quantum Electrodynamics- Einstein Wins Again

No one is seriously expecting to overturn Einstein's idea of time dilation, and instead the goal is often to find the possible limits. That means looking for deviations in experiments with increasing precision or under extreme conditions.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 9:45am

Cold Fusion: A Better Study On The Infamous E-Cat

Do you remember the E-Cat? That is an acronym for "energy catalyzer", the device invented by the Italian philosopher Andrea Rossi. The E-Cat is claimed to produce nuclear energy through the heating of a "secret" powder made up of nichel ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 15 2017 - 7:20pm

Hawking Radiation Observed from a Sonic Black Hole. Very Nobel Work.

The Nobel Committee has asked that the gents who won for blue LED's immediately surrender their awards to Stephen Hawking.   Just Kidding, but the confirmation of Hawking radiation by the work of Jeff Steinhauer is of an order of importance so stupend ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 14 2014 - 5:49am

No Light Dark Matter In ATLAS Search

Yesterday the ATLAS collaboration published the results of a new search for dark matter particles produced in association with heavy quarks by proton-proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Not seeing a signal, ATLAS produced very tight upper ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 16 2014 - 9:39am

From Mindless Physics To Physics Of Mind

       For the sake of clarity, let us consider the two widely known, nonsensical scenarios: The first is one that many scientists charge ‘idealist’ philosophers with, although no thinker beyond the dorm room bong level holds this view: All is just a drea ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 22 2014 - 4:37am

ECFA Workshop: Planning For The High Luminosity LHC

I am spending a few days in Aix Les Bains, a pleasant lakeside resort in the French southwest, to follow the works of the second ECFA workshop, titled "High-Luminosity LHC". ECFA stands for "European Committee for Future Accelerators" b ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 22 2014 - 6:57am

The Quote Of The Week- Shocked And Disappointed

"Two recent results from other experiments add to the excitement of Run II. The results from Brookhaven's g-minus-two experiments with muons have a straightforward interpretation as signs of supersymmetry. The increasingly interesting results fr ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 22 2014 - 10:20am

New CMS Results

The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratories in Geneva is currently in shutdown, finalizing the upgrades that will allow it to restart next year at the  centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV- over 60% more than the last 8 TeV run. ATLAS and CMS have collec ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2014 - 2:20pm