Physics

The Guard Dog. Who Keeps Watch for Fraudulent and Predatory Open Access Journals?

T h e advent of open access (OA) publishing has lead to a proliferation of journals which offer a peer reviewed publication venue for a nominal charge.  Some of these journals are associated with scholarly associations.  Such as Physical Review X.  Others ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 23 2014 - 2:16pm

Computing And Uncertainty: Quantum Leaps And Bounds In 2014

Let's take a look back through the past 12 months of quantum physics research. sharyn morrow/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Felix Pollock and Kavan Modi of Monash University. The past year has provided some of the most interesting developments in quantum mec ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 28 2014 - 5:28pm

The Journey To The Other Side Of Absolute Zero

Frozen cold but not the way beyond absolute zero. Flickr/ kriimurohelisedsilmad, CC BY-NC-SA By Tapio Simula, Monash University ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 29 2014 - 1:01pm

Anti-Social Neutrinos Sometimes Get A Little Weird

Neutrinos almost never interact, 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your hand every second but fewer than one actually makes contact with any of the atoms inside us.  When neutrinos do interact with another particle, it happens at very close distan ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2015 - 2:57pm

The Graph Of The Week- 10th Order Vertex Diagrams

Apologizing for the silence of last week, due not so much to Christmas holidays but to my working around the clock to write a grant proposal, I wish to show you today a graph which describes very well the complexities of modern day frontier theoretical cal ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 30 2014 - 4:40pm

Applicability of the Scientific Method to Theories of Everything (and Often Almost Anything).

T heories of everything in Physics by their nature need to be theories of almost anything. How can we call a theory which is so hard to test we can't test it, right now, science? George Ellis and Joe Silk have stated in Nature that we really should n ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 4 2015 - 6:27am

Pythagorean Equation in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology of Elementary Particle Flavor Physics

There is no more important universal problem in the Standard Model of elementary particles than the problem of mass and mixing flavor hierarchies. The mainstream theoretical approach for treating it is to probe different group-symmetry flavor models. For ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Jul 4 2015 - 5:54pm

Lepton-Flavor-Violating Higgs Decays Fit In With LHCb Anomalies

The CMS Collaboration at the LHC collider has recently measured a non-negligible rate for the fraction of Higgs boson decays into muon-tau pairs, as I reported in this article last summer. The observation is not statistically significant enough to cause an ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 13 2015 - 7:39pm

Anthropic Principle Physics: New Paper Says Universe Situated For Human Life

In 1973, during a symposium to celebrate the 500th birthday of Copernicus, Brandon Carter, a post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, tweaked his audience by stating that humanity did indeed hold a special place in the Unive ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 5:44pm

The Hard Life Of The Science Outreach Agent

This morning I woke up at 6AM, had a shower and breakfast, dressed up, and rushed out in the cold of the fading night to catch a train to Mestre, where my car was parked. From there I drove due north for two hours, to a place in the mountains called Pieve ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 17 2015 - 2:49pm