Physics

Albert Einstein and solar panels

    Many people associate the image of an old man in glasses and crazy white hair with a scientist. This is largely due to the visage of Albert Einstein in his later years. Einstein is largely recognized today for his theories on relativity describing moti ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jun 13 2015 - 10:44am

The ATLAS 2-TeV ZZ Signal Might Be A Techni-Rho

I apologize to you, dear reader, for not having written yet about the 2.5 standard deviation excess that the ATLAS collaboration has recently found in diboson final states at 2 TeV in the 2012 8-TeV data. I thought it was interesting, but for some reason ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 20 2015 - 8:59pm

Einstein A Hero Again: He Saves The Quantum Cat

In 1915 Albert Einstein formulated the theory of general relativity which fundamentally changed our understanding of gravity. He explained gravity as the manifestation of the curvature of space and time. Einstein's theory predicts that the flow of ti ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2015 - 6:52am

ATLAS Pictures Colour Flow Between Quarks

In 1992 I started working at my undergraduate thesis, the search for all-hadronic top quark pairs in CDF data. The CDF experiment was just starting to collect proton-antiproton collision data with the brand-new silicon vertex detector in what was called Ru ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 19 2015 - 1:46pm

ATLAS Pictures Colour Flow Between Quarks

In 1992 I started working at my undergraduate thesis, the search for all-hadronic top quark pairs in CDF data. The CDF experiment was just starting to collect proton-antiproton collision data with the brand-new silicon vertex detector in what was called Ru ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 19 2015 - 2:41pm

Gas rules

The picture of a central positively charged nucleus of an atom surrounded by negatively charged swarming electrons explains so much detail in the nature of our world.   This is known as the atomic model.   The behavior of gas, liquids and solids are almos ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jun 21 2015 - 6:15am

Special Relativity and the Road Not Taken

This poem is too good to just quote the final stanza. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 9 2015 - 9:34pm

Early-Stage Researcher Positions To Open Soon

The Marie-Curie network I am coordinating, AMVA4NewPhysics, is going to start very soon, and with its start several things are going to happen. One you should not be concerned with is the arrival of the first tranche of the 2.4Meuros that the European Rese ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 25 2015 - 1:57pm

In Memory Of David Cline

I was saddened today to hear of the death of David Cline. I do not have much to say here- I am not good with obituaries- but I do remember meeting him at a conference in Albuquerque in 2008, where we chatted on several topics, among them the history of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2015 - 6:22am

The Missing Memristor Has NOT Been Found Published By Nature Group

A simple and provocative title – The Missing Memristor has Not been Found! This harsh admission of reality without sugar coating is the very  title, and not of some opinion piece, but of a scientific paper published by the very same Nature Publishing Grou ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 29 2015 - 2:36am