Physics

The Plot Of The Week- New SUSY Limits From ATLAS

A new ATLAS search for supersymmetric signatures in 2011 LHC data has appeared last week in the arxiv. The result? No hint of a signal, not even for ready money. So if you are on a hurry, you can just have a glance at the graph below, which summarizes the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 1 2012 - 11:33am

CMS Week in Lisbon

Large collaborations of physicists have a consolidated habit of meeting three or four times per year for a full week of discussions and talks. This has multiple purposes, one of them being the possibility to bring together members who live and work off-sit ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 3 2012 - 4:21am

Wheeler’s Utterly Simple Idea That Demands The Quantum

The physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in 1984: “...the most revolutionary discovery in science is yet to come! And come, not by questioning the quantum, but by uncovering that utterly simple idea that demands the quantum. ” Wheeler, 1984 [1] Here is ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 4 2012 - 9:34am

5 Sigma: Writeup For Festivaletteratura

On Friday evening I will be talking in the wonderful Piazza Mantegna, in downtown Mantova (see picture below). It is an event organized by Festivaletteratura (literature festival), where I will be armed with blackboard and chalks, plus a mike, and where I ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 6 2012 - 4:50am

Indeterminism Comes Before Quantum Mechanics

It would be idiotic to claim that quantum mechanics just follows from getting stoned and blurting “everything is possible”. One of the difficulties with understanding the derivation of quantum mechanics (QM) from tautological modal realism [1] is that vit ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 8 2012 - 10:37am

Multiverse: A Religion?

Last Saturday night Gian Francesco Giudice and I discussed the discovery of the Higgs boson and its aftermath in front of a wide audience gathered in the Aula Magna of Mantova University. The event was #173 in the wide program of the town's literature ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2012 - 1:33pm

Why Quarks Come In Three Colours And Have Fractional Charge

It sometimes happens that my comments in the threads of my own blog get long and detailed (do not take this as me boasting about anything- it is just a fact). When that happens, I reason that they deserve to be promoted to a post by themselves, because thr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2012 - 11:25am

Understand Quantum Disprove Of Realism Wearing Cool Shades

The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) famously offers $1000000 to anyone who can demonstrate paranormal abilities.  Its has helped to stem the spread of pseudoscience.  The Quantum Randi Challenge is quite similar (although its main purpose for yo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 25 2013 - 12:53pm

My interview at Festivaletteratura

At this link you can find the video of an interview I gave for Festivaletteratura Mantova (the literature festival held last week). I discuss science outreach, the media, the discovery of the Higgs boson and its impact on laypersons, and a more technical ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 12 2012 - 6:31am

Single Top: tW Production Observed by CMS!

In the last few days CMS released four new publications, which you can download from the Cornell arxiv site. These are exquisite new measurements in the fields of top physics, exotica searches, and higgs physics, and so I thought I would give you the coord ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 21 2012 - 9:38pm