Physics
- Another Collider Physics Source
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Just a short entry to mention that the blog of my colleague Michael Schmitt, a professor at Northwestern University and a member of the CMS collaboration, is as active as ever, with several very interesting and well-written pieces recently published: ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2014 - 10:00am
- Does Max Tegmark Kill A Daughter In A Parallel World?
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The popular description of virtual particles “borrowing” energy and popping in and out of existence all the time is very misleading. There are no such processes “really happening” in the way of a naïve, classically mechanistic physicalism. Instead, all po ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 15 2014 - 9:52pm
- M-Theory Repositions: Now You Can Thank Us For Quantum Mechanics Too
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String theory is a hypothetical framework where particle physics is replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It was originally proposed as a way to explain the strong force, then advocates re-purposed it for quantum gravity, and now it is being ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 6:06pm
- ATLAS Seeks Invisible Particles With Top Quarks
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Results of a new search for single top production and large missing energy have been published by the ATLAS collaboration in a recent preprint. I think it is worthwhile to have a look at the idea behind this new search, as the signature of invisible partic ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 4 2014 - 9:00am
- The Fundamentals of Relativization, and The Purpose of Peer Review After Publication.
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Open Access Post Publication Peer Review as done on the Winnower is a bold experiment which my new model for reconciling General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory has tested. The model I propose is simply a conceptual inversion. Instead of making Gener ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 6 2014 - 7:12pm
- Kitchen Table Physics: The Universe in One Swell Formuloop
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Blame Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for the word "formuloop". They did not devise it. They made a comic book about four people who went into space and then returned to Earth with magic super powers. Such a fantastic time I had reading their adventu ...
Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Nov 5 2014 - 10:58pm
- Quantum Teleportation Controversy: The Peres Conjecture Is False, Says Paper
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Since 1999, a conjecture by Asher Peres, the 'inventor' of quantum teleportation, that the weakest form of quantum entanglement can never result in the strongest manifestation of the phenomenon, has been debated. Peres thought about the phenome ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 8:00am
- Technicolor Force Alternative: Did We Find The Higgs Particle Or Something Else?
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Last year, two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced the finding of a new elementary particle- the long-theorized Higgs particle. Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed t ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 11:47am
- Cheap Compact Particle Accelerators May Be Our Physics Future
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford By Ian Bailey, Lancaster University Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step forward in developing a technology which could significantly r ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 8 2014 - 10:01am
- All Possible Histories: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory and Gamma Matrices
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Relativistic quantum field theory does not apply to everyday life. It doesn't apply to one beam circling the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When two beams traveling in opposite directions smash together, that is when the crazy magic of relativistic q ...
Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Feb 20 2015 - 10:05am