Physical Sciences

Snarky Puzzle Answers

relativistic rocket science effect could be viewed as the recombination of an equation. All the same letters ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 13 2011 - 11:06am

Snarky Puzzle Answers 3

Story As Jan used to say on the Brady Bunch, “Gauge, gauge, gauge, why does gauge get all the ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jun 23 2011 - 4:29am

Why Quantum Statistics?

(for bosonic quantum dice, this is 1/21). Surprise, surprise: all possible outcomes are again ...

Article - Ulrich Mohrhoff - Jul 15 2011 - 5:34pm

Neutrinos CAN Go Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity

so intuitive to laypeople. All such scenarios do not touch the relativity that is valid inside the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 9 2011 - 10:07pm

5 Sigma: Writeup For Festivaletteratura

particles and effects in a number of places all of the time; a two- or even three-sigma excess is bound to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 6 2012 - 4:50am

CMS Vs ATLAS On Dijet Resonances: Who Wins?

spectrum. So let us compare first of all the quoted systematic uncertainties of the two searches. CMS quotes ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 11 2012 - 5:02am

Smelly Chemicals- An Organic Chemist's View

nitrous fumes generated by a few grams of Cu in HNO 3, and destroying all residues by running them into ...

Article - Payal Joshi - Apr 26 2013 - 5:02am

A 4.3σ Signal Of Dimuon Decays Of The Bs Meson!

a low-energy process- the search for B_s decays to muon pairs has been performed with great care in all past ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 19 2013 - 12:37pm

Demystifying The Five-Sigma Criterion

discoveries in the past? Is it a reasonable one? Some History First of all, in order to understand where the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 25 2013 - 4:36am

Invisible Higgs Not Seen!

on a straight line one against the other at the speed of light, and all the debris they produce in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 4 2013 - 11:38am