Physics
- Supertranslations And Eternal Ghosts: Black Holes No Closer To Being Understood
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Stephen Hawking said something! And again the international media is all a'buzz. ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 31 2015 - 9:59am
- Really Complex Quaternions
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[Note: many of the images were upgraded to include more information about addition and multiplication, 10/25/2015] What is a quaternion? Mathematicians might claim it was the independent inventions of Gauss, Hamilton, and Rodrigues. Unit quaternions are u ...
Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Oct 25 2015 - 11:22am
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Confirms Tiny Drops Of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory smashes large nuclei together at close to the speed of light to recreate the primordial soup of fundamental particles that existed in the very early universe. Experiments at RHIC ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2015 - 6:30am
- Superconduction With Stinks — A New Temperature Record
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Back around 1960, at school I enjoyed a laboratory lecture on liquid nitrogen, watching a deep frozen squash ball being shattered at a temperature well below that at which it turns from a rubber into a glass, and then seeing a nail being driven into a blo ...
Article - Robert H Olley - Sep 2 2015 - 3:44pm
- A 3 TeV Dielectron Event By CMS!
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The first really exciting thing from Run 2 at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (at least for me) has finally appeared. A 2.9 TeV dielectron event was recorded by CMS on August 22. At this mass a new Z' boson is not excluded by Run 1 searches.... And in ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 3 2015 - 6:10am
- Quantum reality is natural rather than spooky
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Besides the inevitable emotional doubts accompanying fundamental physics research, Einstein’s results (in the EPR article) are right- there is action at a distance ...
Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 7 2015 - 11:06pm
- The Dynamical Origin Of Quantum Mechanics (I)
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What can be really said about the physical origin and the ultimate nature of the properties of matter described by Quantum Mechanics? ...
Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - May 1 2016 - 11:28am
- How To Test The Theory Of Parallel Universes
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The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “ multiverse ” made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has lo ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2015 - 12:00pm
- The Genesis Of Mass: The Mystery Of The Mirror World
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The title of this post is also the title of a self-published book by George Triantaphyllou, a greek physicist whom I met two weeks ago in Kolimbari, when we attended the ICNFP 2015 conference. I had met George at the same conference three years before, and ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2015 - 5:52am
- 5 Myths About Gravitational Waves
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The scientists behind the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had detected gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time. Initially hailed as the most groundbre ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2015 - 8:30am