Physics

Gravitational Waves? Watch the LIGO press conference at 10:30 Eastern.

LIGO the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory may announce the detection of gravitational waves tomorrow at 10:30AM Eastern time.  I will watch it  and  live tweet it.  The question of the day for most normal people will be...   What are gra ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 13 2016 - 7:03am

Henri Poincaré Predicted The Existence Of Gravitational Waves As Early As June 5, 1905

In recent releases announcing the forthcoming publication of new results on the detection of gravitational waves, the collaborations LIGO and VIRGO, as well as the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), explicitly (and wrongly) attri ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Feb 26 2016 - 9:58am

My Thoughts On The LIGO-VIRGO Result

I believe that the recent discovery of gravitational waves has been described in enough detail by reporters and bloggers around, that my own contribution here would be pointless. Of course I am informed of the facts and reasonably knowledgeable about the t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 14 2016 - 2:30pm

Methodical Comment on the Number of Flavors in Standard Model

                    Comment on the Number of Flavors in Standard Model    A widely used definition (see e.g. Wikipedia for a summery) of the number of particle ‘flavors’ in the SM is 6: 3 particle mass copies (e. g. electron, muon, tau for charged leptons; ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Feb 12 2016 - 5:36pm

Are Dark Matter Scientists About To Prove Its Existence?

Technological advances may be ushering in a new era of understanding in the search for fundamental physical particles- including dark matter- said Professor Alex Murphy of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy at the AAAS meet ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2016 - 9:12pm

There Is Still Hope After Entropy

The first law of thermodynamics is commonly known as the law of conservation of energy.   This means that in any process, no matter how big, small, long or short, the amount of energy of the system will always remain the same throughout time, it is a cons ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Feb 14 2016 - 2:25pm

Geometric Phenomenology of Higgs Sector Empirical Parameters

               Higgs sector is the least advanced one in the Standard Model. There are two ways of developments – theoretical and semi-empirical. The main content of the latter is looking for physically meaningful regularities of the empirical parameter sy ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Feb 15 2016 - 7:19pm

A Simple Calculation That Shows Black Hole Firewalls Exist and How Hot They Are.

I nformation is not destroyed but it is even more scrambled up than anyone thought by black holes. I have used the framework of relativization, to compute the temperature of the proposed firewalls.  It would be about 1.410 septillion Kelvin.   Relativizat ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 6 2016 - 9:56am

What Next INFN: A Research Institute Interrogates Itself On Its Future

Yesterday and today I have been spending time in Rome together with 600 Italian colleagues, at a symposium named "What Next". The idea is to discuss what should be the strategy of the institute to participate and support basic research in fundame ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 17 2016 - 3:56pm

Guest Post: Daniel Hoak, Gravitational Waves: How We Did It

I (T.D.) am very happy to host here today a guest post by Daniel Hoak, a member of the LIGO collaboration, who participated in the discovery of gravitational waves that made headlines one week ago in the world media. Daniel earned his PhD in 2015 with the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2016 - 5:37am