Physics

The Cyclic Model Vs Inflation, Steinhardt et. al. Vs Hawking et al Data Always Wins.

S cientific consensus is not gospel dogma to be enforced, instead it should, and MUST change in the face of contrary data.  There are theories like evolution, general relativity, and climate change which are truly settled science.  Inflation (and string t ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 12 2017 - 8:55pm

Guest Post: Dorigo’s Anomaly! And The Social Psychology Of Professional Discourse In Physics, By Alex Durig

Dr. Alex Durig (see picture) is a professional freelance writer, with a PhD in social psychology from Indiana University (1992). He has authored seven books in his specialization of perception and logic. He claims to have experienced great frustration res ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 17 2017 - 11:55am

Europe In My Region 2017

The European Commission has launched a couple of weeks ago the campaign " Europe in my region 2017 ", an initiative aimed at getting the general public informed on the projects funded by the European Community in their area of residence or activi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 21 2017 - 3:21pm

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice 1: Sub-Lime

This is the first of a series of posts that will publish the results of artistic work by high-school students of three schools in Venice, who participate in a contest and exposition connected to the initiative " Art and Science across Italy ", a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 23 2017 - 8:01am

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice 2: Symmetries

As I explained in the previous post of this series, students in high schools of the Venice area have been asked to produce artistic works inspired by LHC physics research, and in particular the Higgs boson. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 26 2017 - 5:39am

Boosted H--> bb Decays Seen By CMS!

The CMS collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has pulled off an extremely neat new measurement of the Higgs boson production rate- one which, for some reasons, is extraordinary in its own right. Despite being the decay mode with the highest proba ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 29 2017 - 7:57am

Authoring a Paper in Public, the Next Level in Open Science Communication, Oh and a Theory of Everything.

Open science communication is not a new idea but the idea of doing the composition of a paper on a cloud based, search indexed, public platform where anyone can see how the sausage is made is.   Authorea is just such a platform and I am using it to put the ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 29 2017 - 9:58pm

Meeting Matts Roos

Today I gave a seminar at the Physics Department of the University of Helsinki, to talk of " Controversial Phenomena in Collider Data and the 5-Sigma Criterion in HEP ", invited by Juska Pekkanen and Mikko Voutilanen, two CMS colleagues.  The sem ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2017 - 4:52am

Physics-Inspired Artwork In Venice: The Works By The Foscarini School Students

This article continues the series of postings in this blog on the results of artistic work by high-school students of three schools in Venice (out of five who took part initially) that participate in a contest and exposition connected to the initiative &q ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2017 - 9:08am

Physics World's Review Of "Anomaly!"

A new review of my book, " Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab ", has appeared on the June issue of "Physics World". It is authored by Gavin Hesketh, a lecturer at University College London, and you can ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am