Physics

Future Train Wreck: Mine or Modern Physics talk Next Thursday, Jan. 26

If you are in Cambridge, MA on Thursday, Jan. 26, you can see me live at MIT in room 3-270 from 3 to 5pm. If you are anywhere else and have Internet access, you can see me YouTube live in the same time slot. Here is the poster I put up 53 times on the MIT ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jan 20 2017 - 3:58pm

How To Stomach A Black Hole

--- repost due to previous version not surviving server maintenance--- Black holes are hot. Well, thermodynamically these suckers are freaking cold, but they do attract more attention than hot supernovae. And with attention comes recognition. As announced ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 23 2017 - 7:53am

Art And Science: Outreach In Venice

In a few days, students from five high schools in Venice will be lectured on particle physics, the Higgs boson, the giant detectors of today's colliders, and will be treated with pictures and graphs aimed at stimulating their artistic vein. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 23 2017 - 5:49pm

Verlinde's Dark Universe

Lots of people have asked me for my views on Erik Verlinde’s latest paper “ Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe “. This fifty-one pages long preprint has attracted a fair bit of media attention. Particularly in the Netherlands, Verlinde’s name being at ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 25 2017 - 12:17pm

Zee's Nutshell Trilogy

Today I took delivery of my copy of Tony Zee’s third contribution to the Princeton University Press  In a Nutshell  series: “ ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 1 2017 - 11:42am

A Slow-Motion Particle Collision In Anomaly!

Lubos Motl published the other day in his crazily active blog a very nice new review of " Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab ". The review is authored by Tristan du Pree, a colleague of mine who has worked in CM ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 1 2017 - 11:42am

LHCb Finds Suppressed Lambda_B Decay

The so-called Lambda_b baryon is a well-studied particle nowadays, with several experiments having measured its main production properties and decay modes in the course of the past two decades. It is a particle made of quarks: three of them, like the proto ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 5 2017 - 12:16pm

The Six-Month Cycle Of The Experimental Physicist

Every year, at about this time, the level of activity of physicists working in experimental collaborations at high-energy colliders and elsewhere increases dramatically. We are approaching the time of "winter conferences", so called in order to d ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 12 2017 - 11:42am

Two Physics Blogs You Should Not Miss

I would like to use this space to advertise a couple of blogs you might be interesting to know about. Many of you who erratically read this blog may probably have already bumped into those sites, but I figured that as the readership of a site varies contin ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 18 2017 - 8:29am

Anomaly! Now Available As E-Book

Today I would like to mention that my book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab" is now available for purchase as E-Book at its World Scientific site. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2017 - 5:47am