Physics

One LHC A Year

If you chance to take part in a conversation with people arguing that they do not want their tax money to go into building huge science gadgets whose utility for humanity is doubtful and null to them in particular, you have better be equipped with a sound ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 21 2012 - 9:59am

The Analogy In Physics: Help Me Collect Examples

In a few weeks I will speak in Torino, Italy at Comunicare Fisica 2012, a conference devoted to the communication of Physics in the media, in schools, through web sites, etcetera. And I need your help! Let me explain. I have submitted an abstract which rea ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 23 2012 - 9:36am

Postmodern Physics As Description Relativity

While many fields realize that modernity comes to an end like any epoch eventually does, the “hard sciences”, especially physics, still rest in relatively naïve stages, still proud of their “modern” status like a teenager loving his first car. Attempts to ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 24 2012 - 2:07am

Element 113 Conclusively Found- Japan Will Get To Name It

The elusive 113th atomic element has been confirmed by researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science (RNC). A chain of six consecutive alpha decays, produced in experiments at the RIKEN Radioisotope Beam Factory (RIBF), conclusivel ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2012 - 4:30am

Top Quark Mass: The Status

UPDATE: what a difference a small typo makes! In the report below I claimed that the CDF top mass measurement was yet to be stripped of the record of being the most precise in the world, given that the total uncertainty on the mass was 1.01 GeV, while the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 28 2012 - 8:48am

Almost Open Criticism Of Nano Physics In Established Journal

Science writers eagerly disseminate falsehoods about the peer-review system, for example that critiques are published in the same journal as the criticized article. In truth, critical papers are rejected, whistleblowers blacklisted. “Criticism” in academi ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 10 2016 - 9:45pm

Dark Energy via a fifth force on neutrinos.

Dark energy is the biggest mystery in modern cosmology. When observations of distinct supernova finally got good enough to observe the change in the rate of the expansion of the universe, Everyone expected to see, a deceleration due to the effect of gravit ...

Blog Post - Barry Adams - Sep 30 2012 - 10:15am

Do you recycle your texts?

As my twenty three affectionate readers will probably remember, I enjoyed a very pleasant week in Kolymbari (Crete) last June, attending the first International Conference of Frontier Physics. Now, after you attend a conference and give there a presentatio ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2012 - 11:15am

Ziggs, QPAD’s, curvature and inertia

Recently Leonard Susskind introduced a new type of objects and called them ziggs. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY Ziggs are supposed to form a condensate. Massive particles emit and absorb the ziggs, by exchanging them with the condensate. ...

Blog Post - Hans van Leunen - Oct 6 2012 - 9:23am

Significance In Presence Of Systematics, And The LHCb Observation Of Bs Decays To Pion Pairs

In particle physics searches (and elsewhere) the word "significance" is associated with the quantitative measure of how discrepant is one observation with a so-called "null hypothesis". That is, one searches for a new effect in some dat ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 7 2012 - 7:38am