Physics

Superconduction With Stinks — A New Temperature Record

Back around 1960, at school I enjoyed a laboratory lecture on liquid nitrogen, watching a deep frozen squash ball being shattered at a temperature well below that at which it turns from a rubber into a glass, and then seeing a nail being driven into a blo ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Sep 2 2015 - 3:44pm

A 3 TeV Dielectron Event By CMS!

The first really exciting thing from Run 2 at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (at least for me) has finally appeared. A 2.9 TeV dielectron event was recorded by CMS on August 22. At this mass a new Z' boson is not excluded by Run 1 searches.... And in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 3 2015 - 6:10am

Quantum reality is natural rather than spooky

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Besides the inevitable emotional doubts accompanying fundamental physics research, Einstein’s results (in the EPR article) are right- there is action at a distance ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Sep 7 2015 - 11:06pm

The Dynamical Origin Of Quantum Mechanics (I)

What can be really said about the physical origin and the ultimate nature of the properties of matter described by Quantum Mechanics? ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - May 1 2016 - 11:28am

How To Test The Theory Of Parallel Universes

The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “ multiverse ” made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has lo ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2015 - 12:00pm

The Genesis Of Mass: The Mystery Of The Mirror World

The title of this post is also the title of a self-published book by George Triantaphyllou, a greek physicist whom I met two weeks ago in Kolimbari, when we attended the ICNFP 2015 conference. I had met George at the same conference three years before, and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2015 - 5:52am

5 Myths About Gravitational Waves

The scientists behind the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope, last year made an extraordinary claim that they had detected gravitational waves, which are ripples in space-time. Initially hailed as the most groundbre ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2015 - 8:30am

Superbradyonic Vacuum And Quantum Entanglement

I was at the ICNFP 2015 Conference, spending two nights to prepare updated versions of two posters following an idea that I had on August 22 just before taking the plane for Crete (the possible space-time contradiction between the preonic vacuum and the m ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Jul 5 2016 - 12:36pm

Accelerator-Based Experiments: What Next?

This morning I received a copy of the book "WHAT NEXT? White Paper of CSN1", a publication of the Italian INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) addressing the question of what awaits us after the Higgs discovery, and what projects should ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 8 2015 - 7:39am

Neutrino hierarchies are special