Physics

Chinese Physics C: The New PDG Outlet

Today I collected in my mailbox the hefty "Review of Particle Physics", the publication of the Particle Data Group which contains a summary of everything we know about subatomic particles. For the first time, the publisher is a Chinese journal: C ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 3 2015 - 4:21am

Wolf Prize In Physics Awarded To James Bjorken

James D. Bjorken, also known as "BJ" by colleagues and physicists around the world, has been awarded the prestigious 2015 Wolf prize in Physics together with cosmologist Robert Kirshner.  Bjorken deserves a lot of credit for his contribution to s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 3 2015 - 4:59am

The Theory Of Everything Is Not Empirical Science

A common misconception is that all good scientific theory must be based on empirical science and provide ingredients where the theory can be potentially falsified (Karl Popper). This dogma demands that a hypothesized theory should include something falsif ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 7 2015 - 10:21am

Submit A Poster At Neutel And Win An IPad Air

The sixteenth edition of the internationally known Neutrino Telescopes conference will take place on March 2nd-6th 2015 in the usual venue of Palazzo Franchetti in Venice. This is a conference which gathers from around the world researchers who study neutr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 7 2015 - 7:00am

Are There Evidences For Cosmic Inflation? (II)

After the joint analysis by Planck, BICEP2 and Keck Array has been made public (arXiv:1502.00612) invalidating the March 2014 announcement by BICEP2 (arXiv:1403.3985v1), a Forbes contributor writes « When Science Gets It Wrong: Gravitational Waves ». Obvi ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Sep 3 2015 - 6:20pm

The Second Law Of Thermodynamics Is More Of A Guideline Than A Rule?

Don't like the second law of thermodynamics- that heat transfer has limits when trying to do work? Maybe you can just use a different one. Rather than being an immutable fundamental law, researchers from University College London and the Universities ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2015 - 12:28pm

Ignore Phony Controversies, Failure In Real Science Is Good

The BICEP2 telescope at twilight at the South Pole. The supporting data for the inflation of the universe have also gone off into the sunset. Steffen Richter/ Harvard University, CC BY-NC-SA By Chad Orzel, Associate Professor of Physics at Union College. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 11 2015 - 8:30am

Rescinded: Classical Gravity, Part 2: The Dual Force For Gravity Hypothesis

I have decided to rescind this proposal.  The swap of time t for space R and visa versa really didn't change anything: a scalar operator was still needed and the single value of time needed three subscripts, not making it look at all like time.  The ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 3 2015 - 12:41pm

Wave Function: Schrödinger's Cat Gets A Reality Check

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 11 2015 - 6:51pm

Graph Of The Week: The Flavor Of Astrophysical Neutrinos In IceCUBE

A preprint article by the IceCube collaboration captured my attention today in the Cornell Arxiv, and even more interesting was the main result of the analysis it reports, which can be shown as a "temperature plot" on an equilateral triangle. We ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 12 2015 - 11:31am