Physics

A Three Inch Equation: Gravity's Effect at the Smallest Length Scales.

A three inch long equation (or according to Kaku one inch) is the holy grail of post modern theoretical physics.  We all want one equation from which one can derive all known physical laws. I don't have that.  What I have today is a three inch equati ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 16 2015 - 5:15pm

Purely Mechanical Memristors

  So called "memristors" are an intriguing hot topic in electronics and nanotechnology, and highly controversial to boot. A certain type of memristor device was predicted to exist in 1971. Being perhaps a simple electrical component much like a r ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 18 2015 - 6:55am

First CMS Physics Result At 13 TeV: Top Quarks

Twenty years have passed since the first observation of the top quark, the last of the collection of six that constitutes the matter of which atomic nuclei are made. And in these twenty years particle physics has made some quite serious leaps forward; the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2015 - 3:48am

New Frontiers In Physics: The 2015 Conference In Kolimbari

Nowadays Physics is a very big chunck of science, and although in our University courses we try to give our students a basic knowledge of all of it, it has become increasingly clear that it is very hard to keep up to date with the developments in such dive ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 24 2015 - 8:21am

Thou Shalt Have One Higgs- $100 Bet Won!

One of the important things in life is to have a job you enjoy and which is a motivation for waking up in the morning. I can say I am lucky enough to be in that situation. Besides providing me with endless entertainment through the large dataset I enjoy an ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 27 2015 - 9:11am

Most Idiotic Rejection Of Course From Philosopher Of Science Not Grasping Relativity

As a whistle-blower and interdisciplinary scientist who appreciates the strength of philosophical arguments (read: logic!), I receive idiotic rejections declining to publish my work, perusing laughably silly justifications all the time. This is understanda ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 30 2015 - 4:23am

Highlights From ICNFP 2015

The fourth edition of the International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics has ended yesterday evening, and it is time for a summary. However, this year I must say that I am not in a good position to give an overview of the most interesting physics dis ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 31 2015 - 3:59pm

Supertranslations And Eternal Ghosts: Black Holes No Closer To Being Understood

Stephen Hawking said something! And again the international media is all a'buzz. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 31 2015 - 9:59am

Really Complex Quaternions

[Note: many of the images were upgraded to include more information about addition and multiplication, 10/25/2015] What is a quaternion? Mathematicians might claim it was the independent inventions of Gauss, Hamilton, and Rodrigues. Unit quaternions are u ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Oct 25 2015 - 11:22am

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Confirms Tiny Drops Of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory smashes large nuclei together at close to the speed of light to recreate the primordial soup of fundamental particles that existed in the very early universe. Experiments at RHIC ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2015 - 6:30am