Physics

As a follow-up of yesterday's post on the very opportune Pomeranchuk prize given to Stan Brodsky, I would like to report here on a funny anecdote Stan related to me today. The anecdote is interesting to all of us who believe the world of physics resea ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 9 2016 - 12:46pm

Follow The Spacetime Rainbow To A Theoretical Pot Of Gold

When white light is passed through a prism, the rainbow on the other side reveals a rich palette of colors. Theoretical physicists, who have increasingly migrated toward making up stuff using math, now claim using such numbers that quantum theories of gra ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2016 - 12:01pm

Einstein’s God in physics

Einstein’s God in physics In contrast to the known religious with human prayers as main attribute, Einstein’s God is a sincerely scientific one stimulating new research “I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details”. Its ...

Blog Post - Emmanuel Lipmanov - Jan 15 2016 - 2:23pm

A Hypothetical Recipe For Muon Pair Creation

A true-muonium only lives for two microseconds. These atoms are made up one positively and one negatively charged elementary particle, also known as muons. Although they have yet to be observed experimentally, a Japanese theoretical physicist has come up ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2016 - 11:23am

Status Of "Anomaly!"

I believe it is appropriate if I restart this column today, after a two-month period of semi-inactivity, with a description of what has been going on in my private- well, semi-private- life. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 2 2016 - 2:48am

Choose the next topic

Being back in blogging mood, I decided I would make a poll among the most affectionate readers of this column- those who will come here to read "blog" pieces and not only "articles which are sponsored on the relevant spots in the main web pa ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 2 2016 - 3:34pm

Top Secret: On Confidentiality On Scientific Issues, Across The Ring And Across The Bedroom

The following text, a short excerpt from the book "Anomaly!", recounts the time when the top quark was about to be discovered, in 1994-95. After the "evidence" paper that CDF had published in 1994, the CDF and DZERO experiments were bo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 5 2016 - 5:08pm

From The Great Wall To The Great Collider

With a long delay, last week I was finally able to have a look at the book "From the Great Wall to the Great Collider- China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe", by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. And I would like to repo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 8 2016 - 2:14pm

No Higgs Needed: 5 Ways Particle Accelerators Have Changed The World

The Large Hadron Collider is probably the world’s most famous science experiment. The 27 km-long ring-shaped particle accelerator beneath the edge of the Alps grabbed the world’s attention in 2013 when it proved the existence of the Higgs boson particle. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 10 2016 - 7:30am

Giddings: The 750 GeV Diphoton Resonance Is A Graviton

After the ATLAS and CMS collaboration disclosed their first Run 2 results on diphoton searches, less than two months ago, t he realization that it would be impossible to keep up-to-date with all the theoretical ideas that were being put forth was immediate ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 10 2016 - 4:51am