Physics

Nonlocality is an inherent feature of quantum reality

  Nonlocality is an inherent natural feature of quantum reality described by its wave function (WF). It shows itself up not only in the widely discussed cases with two or more particles, but also with one spinless particle. The point is that the WF-Collaps ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Oct 23 2015 - 2:37pm

May The Fifth Force Be With You

Discovering possible new forces in nature is no easy task. To discover the secret of gravity, the public thinks it took an apple falling from a tree, but really it took him inventing Calculus. linked to Newton's arguably apocryphal apple experiment h ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2015 - 3:04pm

Shopping Around For A Post-Doc

As I am spending my time these days selecting candidates for early-stage researcher positions in the EU network I am coordinating, I am reminded of my own experience as a participant to job interviews from the other side of the table. The text below tells ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2015 - 2:58pm

H-Index? GIve Me A Break

Recurrently, uninformed journalists re-discover the h-index and decide to create their own list of the "top scientists" in their country. The most zealous also draw some summary statistics from the list, and then venture to speculate wildly about ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 30 2015 - 6:00am

The real science behind astrology

Is there a battle between astrology and science? The law of gravity is readily recognized and easily tested.  The force that gave rise to the expression, "whatever goes up must come down" has indeed undergone extensive scientific testing and is ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Oct 31 2015 - 3:57pm

An Online Database Of Nuclear Electromagnetic Moments

If you are into Nuclear Physics there is very good chance you know about nuclear electromagnetic moments. Actually, nuclear electromagnetic moments has been the field of my specialty from the beginning of my scientific career. This is also why my blog in s ...

Article - Theo Mertzimekis - Nov 2 2015 - 6:27pm

A Brief History Of Femtoscopy

This week I am in Warsaw, where I attend the XI workshop on particle correlations and femtoscopy. I am actually here to give a seminar on statistical methods in particle physics next Thursday, but of course I am also going to try and deepen my understandin ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 3 2015 - 6:25am

Calculating Invervals Between Events

In my last blog, I wrote in detail about zero, one, real numbers, complex numbers and quaternions (or as I now prefer to call them, space-time numbers although I use them interchangeably). For each sort of number, there were rules for addition, rules for ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 30 2015 - 8:34pm

New Idea of Quantum Medium

The WF-Collapse (WF-C) is in general a nonlocal phenomenon. ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Nov 22 2015 - 8:50pm

The Graph Of The Week: Polarization In Single Top Production

Top quarks, the heaviest known elementary particles, were discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DZERO collaborations, when the two Fermilab experiments spotted the decay of  top-antitop pairs produced by strong interactions in the proton-antiproton collisions ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2015 - 5:49am