Physics

New Type Of Dibaryon Predicted- But Is It Real?

If you want to know how to do time travel, ask a mathematician. If you want to show how math is not science, but is instead the language of science, hand those equations to a physicist.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:40pm

Science 2.0 Explains: How Water Exists In Two Different Forms At The Molecular Level

Everyone knows that water is a molecule in which a single oxygen atom is linked to two hydrogen atoms- H20. But the story of water gets a lot more scientifically interesting the deeper you go. Water actually exists in two different forms, called isomers, a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2018 - 8:00am

Guest Post: Eleni Petrakou, A Model Of The Solar Cycle

[Eleni Petrakou, Ph.D., is a physicist and an independent researcher, besides being a longtime follower of this blog. She now has a newsletter of her own; it is high S/N stuff- check it out here. After a past collaboration with the CMS experiment, she has ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 26 2018 - 6:12am

Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity Survives Another Challenge

The effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity on the motion of a star passing through the extreme gravitational field have been validated near the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Obscured by thick clouds of absorbing dust, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2018 - 2:49pm

A Capella Science At CERN

Do you know the works of Tim Blais, the guy behind "A Capella Science"? I sincerely hope you do, but otherwise this post is for you. Tim has a youtube page where he publishes his amazing works. Tim sings modified lyrics of famous songs, and mixes ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 17 2018 - 10:10am

A Star New Textbook On Particle And Astroparticle Physics

Version 2 of a thick textbook on particle and astroparticle physics is out, and you should have a look at it (well, at least if you're seriously interested in the topic!). The book, titled " Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics &quo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2018 - 7:48am

Something Does Not Match. Error Or Discovery?

On September 4 to 8 the city of Mantova, in northern Italy, will be brimming with writers and readers. The event is called "Festivaletteratura" and brings together authors and consumers of books of all kinds, in a week-long kermesse with intervie ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 24 2018 - 8:54am

Detection Of Higgs Particle Via Decay Into Bottom Quarks

Two teams have announced the fifth and most prominent way that the Higgs boson- "the God particle" as it was once called- decays into other particles called bottom quarks. This pathway is the last to be detected of the five main signature pathway ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2018 - 6:59am

ScienceGround At Festivaletteratura

Since yesterday, and for almost a week, the literature festival in Mantova hosts "ScienceGround", a quite innovative initiative at the boundary between a science fair, a workshop, a library, and a place to hang around together and exchange ideas ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 6 2018 - 5:49am

Indefinite Causal Order Answers The Chicken Or Egg Paradox

The famous paradox 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' was created by philosophers to discuss cause and effect. Since chickens lay eggs, and eggs produce chickens...you get the idea. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2018 - 3:35pm