Physics

With a slightly anti-climatic timing if we consider the just ended orgy of new results presented at winter conferences in particle physics (which I touched on here), the LHCb collaboration outed today the results of a measurement of unity, drawing attentio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 19 2017 - 6:39am

A Visit To GSI

GSI, the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, is a laboratory located near the town of Darmstadt, in central Germany, just a few miles away from the Frankfurt airport. The centre was founded in 1969, and has since then been a very active facility where ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 27 2017 - 9:18am

INSIGHTS: A New EU Network For Particle Physics And Statistics

Innovative training networks are a European Community concept funded by the Research Executive Agency, under the project called "Marie Curie Actions". The idea is that the EU helps build structures that provide interdisciplinary training to skill ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 3 2017 - 3:23am

Are Your Data Fluctuating As They Should?

A little while ago I encountered an interesting problem, which I had fun solving by myself. I think my solution is not original (it must have occurred to others a gazillion times in the past) but I do believe the implementation is nice, so I want to share ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 9 2017 - 11:08am

Flavor-Geometric Duality and Pseudo-Euclidean Symmetry of Neutrino Mixing in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology

800x600 Flavor-Geometric Duality and Pseudo-Euclidean Symmetry of Neutrino Mixing in Semi-Empirical Phenomenology I. Suggested early by the author, main equation of neutrino mixing semi-empirical phenomenology is given by ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - May 8 2017 - 10:04am

A Little Big History of Cars

The field of Big History attempts to tie events from cosmology, life evolution, and history into narratives and common themes. ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - May 9 2017 - 1:21pm

Practical Tools Of The Improvised Speaker

Yesterday I visited the Liceo “Benedetti” of Venice, where 40 students are preparing their artwork for a project of communicating science with art that will culminate in an exhibit at the Palazzo del Casinò of the Lido of Venice, during the week of the E ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 10 2017 - 6:54am

The Cyclic Model Vs Inflation, Steinhardt et. al. Vs Hawking et al Data Always Wins.

S cientific consensus is not gospel dogma to be enforced, instead it should, and MUST change in the face of contrary data. There are theories like evolution, general relativity, and climate change which are truly settled science. Inflation (and string t ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 12 2017 - 8:55pm

Guest Post: Dorigo’s Anomaly! And The Social Psychology Of Professional Discourse In Physics, By Alex Durig

Dr. Alex Durig (see picture) is a professional freelance writer, with a PhD in social psychology from Indiana University (1992). He has authored seven books in his specialization of perception and logic. He claims to have experienced great frustration res ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 17 2017 - 11:55am

Europe In My Region 2017

The European Commission has launched a couple of weeks ago the campaign " Europe in my region 2017 ", an initiative aimed at getting the general public informed on the projects funded by the European Community in their area of residence or activi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 21 2017 - 3:21pm