Physics

Guest Post: Jacques Distler, Why I Lost $750 On New Physics At The LHC

Jacques Distler is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a distinguished theorist, as well as a physics blogger. Along with experimentalist Gordon Watts (who covered $250) he took my $1000 bet that the LHC would not discover new ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 15 2017 - 7:19pm

The Self-referential Start Of Fundamental Description- Toward A Theory Of Everything Via Serious "Postmodern" Physics

What can be logically prior, what must be assumed, what is the metaphysically necessary apriori starting point? Here I present the one necessary before I can focus on understanding time in order to derive Einstein locality. These are crucial steps in rend ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 14 2013 - 3:58pm

Goodbye CDF

Like HAL 9000 in the wonderful movie "2001-  the space odyssey", the CDF detector is being disassembled piece by piece, losing its functionality bit by bit, and turning from one of the most complex electronics systems ever built into a pile of ju ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 7 2013 - 6:34pm

Massive star forming cores and outflows found by analysis of astronomical data

Like gems hidden in mountains of sand, I have sifted through vast amounts of data which have been gathered by surveys covering wide areas of the sky at particular wavelengths, and found likely star forming cores, hints of circumstellar disk and outflows in ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 19 2013 - 7:08pm

Three Sigma Are Nothing!

This morning I had a funny dream, and as I woke up at the end of it and watched the clock with the only eye I had managed to open, I realized it was not yet really time to wake up. On the other hand, I really liked the dream I had had: it was quite vivid a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 10 2013 - 12:19pm

More On Rossi's E-Cat: Ericsson And Pomp Rebut "Independent" Test

The querelle on the device patented by Andrea Rossi, the E-CAT, which allegedly produces heat from nuclear fusion processes inside a small cylindrical reactor fueled with Hydrogen and Nickel powder, continues to draw the attention of the gullible as well a ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2013 - 9:06am

Magnetic Reconnection: The Heart Of Space Weather In The Sun Observed In Action

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnec ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2013 - 9:40am

Ghost Particles- New Limits On Extremely Rare Neutrino Decay

Neutrinos are the second most abundant particles in the Universe, after photons, but when it comes to being elusive they can compete with anything. That's due to their having extremely weak interactions with all other particles, which leads to them be ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2013 - 1:30pm

A 4.3σ Signal Of Dimuon Decays Of The Bs Meson!

Today I am quite happy to report of a new groundbreaking result from the CMS collaboration at the CERN LHC- the experiment to which I devote 100% of my research time. We published overnight a report on the Cornell arxiv, and will present this week at the E ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 19 2013 - 12:37pm

Do Measurements Of The B_d Decay To Muon Pairs Indicate Four Generations Of Matter?

I reported two days ago on the new measurements by the CMS Collaboration of the decay of B hadrons into muon pairs, revealed at the opening of the EPS 2013 conference in Stockholm and in a preprint. Funnily, I wrote the piece oblivious of the LHCb result, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 22 2013 - 2:13pm