Physics

A Privileged Space Direction? Spinorial Space-time, WMAP, Planck (I)

The spinorial space-time that I suggested in 1996-7 [1,2] naturally predicts a privileged space dimension for each observer. This was emphasized in some of my recent works [3,4], well before the Planck collaboration wrote on March 21-22 [5]: http://sci.esa ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Aug 20 2014 - 8:43am

Move Over Dark Matter, MOND Is Back?

Stacy McGaugh, professor of astronomy at Case Western Reserve, and Mordehai Milgrom, the father of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and professor of physics at Weizmann Institute in Israel, say the MOND modified law of gravity correctly predicted, in ad ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2013 - 2:20pm

Heavy Ion Collisions: A Few CMS Results

Back from the beautiful Greek island of Naxos, I find myself in Venice for just a day before leaving to another Greek island- Crete. But this time for business rather than vacations: I will be giving a CMS Overview talk at the International Conference of N ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 29 2013 - 7:25am

The Plot Of The Week- How SUSY Got Scr***d By The LHC

Thanks to a friend and follower of this blog, which I will not name for once to protect him from your flaming, I can share today with you one of the best instances of involuntary humor in particle physics graphs I have ever seen in my whole life. The graph ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 30 2013 - 1:11pm

Finding The Origins Of Cosmic Rays

Cosmic rays, high-energy particles, can damage electronics on Earth, as well as human and non-human DNA, which puts astronauts in space at risk but has also caused any number of genetic modifications in plants that are considered completely natural.   The ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2013 - 8:09pm

Greek Translation of Blog Articles

As few of my readers know, I have run a blog written in Greek language in parallel with this one for a couple of years. The idea of that endeavour was twofold: to offer some particle physics outreach in Greek language in the blogosphere, which is difficult ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 2 2013 - 1:23am

George Zweig At ICNFP 2013

Yesterday I had the great pleasure to listen to George Zweig, who gave seminar about the discovery of the idea of quarks (or Aces, as he originally named them) at the International Conference of New Frontiers in Physics which is going on this week in the n ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 2 2013 - 4:25am

Scalesetting Procedure May Expose New Aspects Of High Energy Physics

The universe may be constructed in a completely different way than models of today predict. The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot exp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 12:08pm

Invisible Higgs Not Seen!

One year has passed since the joint discovery, by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, of a particle which perfectly fits our expectations for a Standard Model Higgs boson. Highly wanted and sought for at particle colliders s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 4 2013 - 11:38am

You Should NOT Read This Blog If...

Every once in a while I feel compelled to write in clear what should be self-evident to anybody with a working brain; to give a sort of "advice to surfers". I don't expect that such an advice be taken seriously- nobody wants to be told what ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 8 2013 - 5:57am