Physics

T-Channel Single Top: The New Atlas Measurement

Top quarks are most often produced in pairs at hadron colliders. The reason of this fact is that the strong interaction, which produces most of the reactions between the projectiles, is flavor-blind, and it cannot create a single new flavor of quarks out o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 23 2012 - 1:39pm

Was Einstein Wrong?

Was Einstein wrong about ?  ...

Blog Post - Barry Barrett - Jun 1 2012 - 5:25am

Geometry Of The Big Bang

The deeper we look into the universe, the deeper we look back in time. When in the night sky you see planets like Jupiter and Saturn, you look about an hour back in time. Look at the stars, and you are looking back in time anywhere from years to several ce ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - May 29 2012 - 5:56pm

Help Create The Most Powerful FQXi Essay: Fall Of Direct Realism

The fourth FQXi essay contest is underway. There is a lot questionable about FQXi and what it at times supports, but this year’s topic is just so clearly up my alley that I simply cannot resist: Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?   ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 6 2012 - 8:23am

I Authored 700 Papers. Did I Read Them All? No.

Measuring the value and the impact of a scientist on her field of research using as data her scientific papers, the number of citations these papers got, and the prestige of the scientific journals where these were published is no easy matter. Grading Rese ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 29 2012 - 1:53pm

Quotes On Peer Review In HEP

Dear readers, your input is appreciated. Please read the following quotes and let me know what are your thoughts on the matter in the comments thread. You need not leave your name if you wish to remain anonymous, but I'd appreciate it if you mentioned ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 29 2012 - 6:15am

Reality and Relativity

REALITY AND RELATIVITY Before we begin, let's put one thing on the record. Albert was not wrong; it's just that we have a much more detailed, precise understanding of what he was saying.  Over the past century relativity has been used to investi ...

Blog Post - Tony Fleming - Oct 16 2012 - 12:39am

The Quote of the Week

"The decay widths have higher-order perturbative QCD corrections, and these are particularly important for the  decay which dominates over a wide range of (light) Higgs masses. The main effect is to cause the quark mass to run from its "constitu ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 1 2012 - 8:17am

New Names For (Relatively) New Elements: Flerovium And Livermorium

Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov  (1913-1990) is the father of the superheavy element production in the USSR (now Russia). Under his guidance scientists at the Flerov Nuclear Institute in Dubna were successful in synthesizing a significant number of heavy element ...

Article - Theo Mertzimekis - Jun 3 2012 - 5:26am

End Of Joy Christian Affair Or Of Scientific Discourse

Almost exactly a year ago, I made a medium storm in the water glass by publishing my exchange with what I ironically called the "Future King of Physics". I then asked Perimeter Institute in Canada, Oxford University, and FQXi, to distance themse ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 2 2012 - 10:57pm