Physics

M-Theory Repositions: Now You Can Thank Us For Quantum Mechanics Too

String theory is a hypothetical framework where particle physics is replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It was originally proposed as a way to explain the strong force, then advocates re-purposed it for quantum gravity, and now it is being ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 6:06pm

ATLAS Seeks Invisible Particles With Top Quarks

Results of a new search for single top production and large missing energy have been published by the ATLAS collaboration in a recent preprint. I think it is worthwhile to have a look at the idea behind this new search, as the signature of invisible partic ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 4 2014 - 9:00am

The Fundamentals of Relativization, and The Purpose of Peer Review After Publication.

Open Access Post Publication Peer Review as done on the Winnower is a bold experiment which my new model for reconciling General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory has tested.  The model I propose is simply a conceptual inversion.  Instead of making Gener ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 6 2014 - 7:12pm

Kitchen Table Physics: The Universe in One Swell Formuloop

Blame Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for the word "formuloop".  They did not devise it.  They made a comic book about four people who went into space and then returned to Earth with magic super powers.   Such a fantastic time I had reading their adventu ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Nov 5 2014 - 10:58pm

Quantum Teleportation Controversy: The Peres Conjecture Is False, Says Paper

Since 1999, a conjecture by Asher Peres, the 'inventor' of quantum teleportation, that the weakest form of quantum entanglement can never result in the strongest manifestation of the phenomenon, has been debated.  Peres thought about the phenome ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 8:00am

Technicolor Force Alternative: Did We Find The Higgs Particle Or Something Else?

Last year, two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced the finding of a new elementary particle- the long-theorized Higgs particle.  Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 11:47am

Cheap Compact Particle Accelerators May Be Our Physics Future

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford By Ian Bailey, Lancaster University Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step forward in developing a technology which could significantly r ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 8 2014 - 10:01am

All Possible Histories: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory and Gamma Matrices

Relativistic quantum field theory does not apply to everyday life.  It doesn't apply to one beam circling the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  When two beams traveling in opposite directions smash together, that is when the crazy magic of relativistic q ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Feb 20 2015 - 10:05am

PhD Positions For Chinese Students in Padova

I am using my blog to advertise the opening of PhD positions in Padova University, to work at several research projects and obtain a PhD in Physics. These are offered to Chinese students through the China Scolarship Council. More information is available a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2014 - 9:01am

Gravitational Waves Could Unlock Secrets Of The Black Hole Universe

When two giant LIGO detectors are switched on in the US next year, they will help scientists pick up the faint ripples of black hole collisions millions of years ago, known as gravitational waves.  Black holes cannot be seen, but scientists hope the revam ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 9:00am