Physics

A Completely New Look Onto Fundamental Physics

People can already count since several millennia. Arithmetic is improved over time. Usually we count by using integers. If we want to get more accurate results, then we better use rational numbers. Sometimes we also use numbers that are not expressible in ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Apr 1 2012 - 8:12am

Unmistakable Gluino Signal In ATLAS!!

And after all I said about Supersymmetry being an invention, I fear I now have to eat it all with my hat to boot! The ATLAS Collaboration has just released results of a very striking search for gluinos, which increases the sensitivity over past analyses by ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 25 2015 - 11:51am

Faster Than Light Neutrino Puts New 'Pep' In Pepsi

Fresh from ironing out the mechanical difficulties in the faster-than-light neutrino, CERN and OPERA have licensed the technology to soda giant Pepsi, which will use neutrinos instead of dissolved carbon dioxide to create the drink's iconic fizz. &quo ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Apr 1 2012 - 7:48am

The Little Gauge that Could

This blog is a salvage job. I have towed my t-shirts with the GEM Lagrange density and field equations to the retraction dump, crashing global sales numbers.  I have spent time picking through the rubble, trying to understand causes for the crash.  While t ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 14 2012 - 12:19am

Pick Four: Gravity, Quantum, Length, Width, Depth

In my late teenage years I grew fond of Scientific American. Although language caused a barrier, and while I could digest and understand only some of the articles, the popscience presented opened my eyes to exciting developments and invited me to study fur ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Apr 8 2012 - 11:29pm

Why There Is More Matter Than Antimatter

Matter annihilates antimatter, mostly resulting in light (no, not “pure energy”, whatever that is supposed to be). Matter and antimatter can also come into existence together via a process that is the reverse of annihilation. Yet our universe has almost n ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 10 2012 - 8:00am

Cycling Around Z2

I don't have a proposal right now which makes writing a research driven blog a bit awkward.  I will only say I have a proposal when I have an action, and the action has been put into the Mathematica notebook I devised in the fall of last year as part ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 9 2012 - 11:38pm

LHC @ 8 TeV: First Week Of 2012 Run

Last week the Large Hadron Collider has started producing collisions at the record high 8-TeV centre-of-mass energy to the ATLAS and CMS detectors. In the course of the first week of run almost 200 inverse picobarns have been delivered to CMS, which is abs ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 10 2012 - 1:39pm

Recent Results Of The CMS Experiment

For once I allow myself some self-advertising... I just published on the Cornell arXiv the preprint of a proceedings paper I wrote for the Bormio 2012 conference on Nuclear Physics, where I presented the most recent results from the CMS experiment in a rev ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 13 2012 - 5:42pm

Profound Recursion Or Remains The Feeling That Something Profound Remains

We seem to not be able to “explain” certain aspects like the nature of time, and not for lack of trying. Especially: We cannot explain a single subjective feeling in ways that satisfy many – not subjective sounding of sound, not the redness of the color r ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 15 2012 - 1:32am