Physical Sciences

Why Quantum Mechanics Is Weird

consistent with experiments. Well, not exactly. We also demand the back story, why it all works. That is the ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jun 8 2011 - 11:17pm

Auralization, Acoustics And The Quest For The Perfect Concert Hall

pure diffusion, no sound energy is converted, but it is all scattered in different directions. For ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 24 2008 - 11:58am

King Coal And The Heat Values Of Fuels

to steam-engines* but to all imaginable heat-engines, whatever the working substance and whatever the ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 9:45am

A Top Cross Section Measurement I Like

colleagues in Padova and I to first observe the all-hadronic decay of top quark pairs. What was there left to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 14 2011 - 1:35am

Why The Higgs Is A Bad Ballerina

"rotation" is fixed and quantized. And--worst of all--the electron, and all other particles like it (called ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Aug 12 2012 - 10:36pm

Multithreading For Dummies

in the early 2010s machine learning become what everybody wanted to do, all day, for the rest of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 16 2023 - 2:02pm

First Signs IF Betelgeuse Were to Supernova.

solutions this does not perturb our results by much at all. Neutrinos are also nearly non interacting.  To ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 15 2020 - 6:12pm

LHC, World's Largest Particle Accelerator, Completed

kept on track. This means that they will control the beams’ millimetric dimension all the way along ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2007 - 1:55am

An Even Stranger Gas

However, this all required the intervention of nature’s most voracious element, fluorine, which is also the ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 27 2017 - 3:27pm

Where's Tommaso?

are all better prepared to run things remotely. I have already been doing this with a PhD student who ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 2 2024 - 10:08am