Physics

I Am Writing A Book

Inspired by my friend Peter Woit's openness in discussing his work in progress (a thick textbook on the foundations of quantum mechanics), I feel compelled to come out here about my own project. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 4 2013 - 9:31am

The Quote Of The Week- Higgs On Anderson's Role In The Higgs Mechanism

"During the years 1962 to 1964 a debate developed about whether the Goldstone theorem could be evaded. Anderson pointed out that in a superconductor the Goldstone mode becomes a massive plasmon mode due to its electromagnetic interaction, and that th ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 5 2013 - 12:51pm

Top Partners Wanted

No, this is not an article about top models. Rather, the subject of discussion are models that predict the existence of heavy partners of the top quark. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2013 - 6:14am

Big Crunch Beta Functions: The End Of The Universe Is Closer Than You Think

It could be in a billion years, it could start tomorrow, but physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball. Like a lot of things, it just takes a little mathematics ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 1:33pm

3 MeV? You Must Be Kidding Me?!

In 1989 the CDF experiment was sitting on its first precious bounty of proton-antiproton collisions, delivered by the Tevatron collider at the unprecedented energy of 1.8 TeV. One of the first measurements that was produced was the measurement of the mass ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 17 2013 - 1:31am

Ultrafast Pot Boils Water In A Trillionth Of A Second- Now You Just Have To Build It

Want to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second? Now you can, if you are at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and can find someone to build your theoretical concept. Still, heating water 600 degrees Celsius in just half a picosec ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2013 - 12:06pm

The Quote Of The Week- Physics Analysis Organization

"The senior signs the paper, the post-doc thinks, and the grad student executes" F.S., explaining how the typical nucleus of analysis group in HEP works. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 19 2013 - 5:10am

Electron's Roundness Throws A Curve At Supersymmetry

Physicists at Yale and Harvard have thrown a new curve at Supersymmetry, the popular hypothesis about what lies beyond physics' reigning model of fundamental forces and particles, the Standard Model. And it involves the electron's almost perfect ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2013 - 6:30am

Upgrading Newton's Universal Gravity Law

[note: this blog, as written is insufficient. I will need to provide an action to clarify the nature of the proposal.] ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Dec 23 2013 - 10:26am

Quarks: The Charming Socialites Of Physics Reveal How They Mix

Since the discovery of the charm quark in 1974, physicists have postulated a rare process in which a charm particle spontaneously changes into its antiparticle. Evidence for this behavior was uncovered three decades later by experiments in the US and Japa ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2013 - 6:00am