Physics

Merging Mathematical Technologies by Applying the Reverse bra-ket Method

Current quantum physical models treat Hilbert spaces, function theory and differential calculus and integral calculus as separate entities. In the past nothing existed that directly relates these ingredients, which together constitute the quantum physical ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Jun 22 2016 - 10:41am

Finding All-Hadronic Top- Again

The top quark is the heaviest known subatomic particle we may call "elementary", i.e. one we describe as a point-like object; it weighs a full 66% more than the Higgs boson itself! Top was discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DZERO collaborations at ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2016 - 11:58am

Adventures Of A Physicist On Vacation

As my blogging here has been erratic in the last couple of weeks, I feel I need to explain to my 23 readers (what citation is this BTW?) what I have been up to. So this post does not contain any physics, and is rather about how a physicist fights for some ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 2 2016 - 7:33am

The Higgs Boson Is 4 Years Old

Today, while Americans set up their barbecues and prepare to celebrate their Independence, particle physicists around the world have a different reason to celebrate. Four years ago today is when the Higgs boson got officially declared a confirmed new part ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2016 - 7:00am

ATLAS And CMS Publish Articles Confirming Tantalizing Hints Of New 750 GeV Boson

Final results of searches for particles decaying to photon pairs in 2015 data keep hopes alive for imminent ground-breaking discovery On December 15 th last year, as the physics coordinators of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations showcased the results of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2016 - 4:00am

Thou shalt construct in a modular way

Diving deep into the foundations of physical reality requires a deep dive into advanced mathematics. Usually this goes together with formulas or other descriptions that are incomprehensible to most people. ...

Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Jul 10 2016 - 5:09am

Poster Session At ICNFP 2016

I am spending a week in Kolimbari, a nice seaside place in western Crete. Here the fifth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics is being held in the Orthodox Academy of Crete. The conference gathers together high-energy experimentalists and t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 10 2016 - 3:43pm

Space From Hilbert Space: A Popular Overview.

T he concept origin of space-time itself as a emergent property of a collection of fundamentally quantum systems without a notion of space-time is not new. When this is done usually certain presuppositions are made about the nature of the underlying quant ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 10 2016 - 7:38pm

Can An Unstable Vacuum Drive The Expansion Of The Universe?

Is the expansion of the Universe a natural effect due to the internal dynamical properties of the physical vacuum? Can one rule out the possibility that the vacuum is unstable (or metastable) and naturally expands emitting conventional matter and energy s ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Aug 11 2016 - 2:35am

How Much Light Does A Proton Contain?

Gavin Salam's talk at the "Altarelli Memorial" session of the ICNFP 2016 conference, which is presently taking place in Kolimbari (Crete), was very interesting and I wish to report here about it.  ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 16 2016 - 4:20am