Physical Sciences

Things That Can Decay To Boson Pairs

theory. There are multiple reasons for this belief. First of all, the SM manifestly fails to include ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 6 2017 - 7:59am

Systematic Uncertainties: The Heart Of The Matter In Physics Measurement

distinguishing some physical process of interest we want to study and measure (the signal) from all the competing ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 22 2020 - 8:42am

Assholery In Academia

and men alike (but mostly men, if you ask my personal opinion). But not all of us develop that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 18 2020 - 6:20pm

Solving The Sonic Problem To Usher In A Boom In Supersonic Travel

speed of sound in the medium (Mach 1). The wave fronts in front of the source are now all bunched up at ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Sep 2 2008 - 1:38pm

Who Underestimates Their Systematic Uncertainties?

roughly ok. How can we do that? Simple. First of all, let us take from the PDG the results by CDF and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 7 2009 - 1:27pm

The Petabyte Problem

to drill down through all possibilities?  The problem becomes worse when scientists access data from ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 25 2009 - 4:35pm

Booting-Up The Universe: Divine Feat Or Random Act?

maintained only by being in contact with a larger universe that generously accepts all excess entropy. To ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 4 2009 - 9:59am

Star Systems are Atoms?

being extended to include all known associated physical phenomena, but as it stands currently, there are ...

Blog Post - Robert DeMelo - May 29 2011 - 10:50pm

The Point On Higgs Searches

includes all electroweak fit results, along with direct search results. The minimum of the curve shows the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2011 - 10:32am

What Is Entropy?

of N coins. Suppose these are prepared in a state in which all coins show heads, and that a coin ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - May 6 2012 - 1:35am