Physics

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

The ATLAS Quest For Photon Jets

What is a photon jet? Despite their exotic name, photon jets are a well studied thing nowadays. The original studies were performed by experimentalists who aimed to test quantum chromodynamics: they used to spend their time discriminating prompt photon pro ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 14 2018 - 8:09am

Can Neural Networks Design The Detector Of A Future Particle Collider?

Casual reader, be warned- the contents of this article, specifically the second part of it, are highly volatile, speculative stuff. But hey, that is the stuff that dreams are made of. And I have one or two good reasons to dream on. The environment ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 22 2018 - 4:51am

Alessandro Strumia, The Mansplainer

The world of particle physics is in turmoil because of a presentation by Alessandro Strumia, an Italian phenomenologist, at CERN's "1st workshop on high energy theory and gender", and its aftermath.  By now the story has been echoed by many ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2018 - 10:03am

Alessandro Strumia VS Brain Scan Data. Studies of Transgender Brains Incidentally Tested His Hypothesis This Year.

A lessandro Strumia, needs to have had a five minute talk with the late great Ben Barres.  Dr Barres was fond of telling a story where he heard how much his work was “better than your sister’s”.   Ben was a female to male transguy.   For those unfamiliar ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 2 2018 - 11:14pm

Particle Physics In Europe: Plans For The Future

Particle physics has been historically the ground of long-standing scientific challenges between the US and Europe, especially since the birth of the CERN laboratories in 1954. And in parallel, another challenge has kept the field alive and thriving for ov ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 12 2018 - 6:38am

Can Statisticians Become Experimental Physicists?

Before you brush off this post with the answer "of course", let me qualify the title. Of course anybody can become a particle physicist, although the learning curve can be steep and hard to climb up. But what I mean here is, can a student who has ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 19 2018 - 7:03am

How To Interact With Dark Matter

What is Dark Matter (DM) and why should you care? I feel I should start this article by explaining these two things first, as we live in an age when nobody has time for long historical or context-setting introductions.  ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 25 2018 - 7:03am

Machine Learning For Jet Physics At Fermilab

I flew to the US yesterday to get to Fermilab, where I am following a workshop titled Machine learning for jet physics ". My goal of this post is to explain what this is about in general terms, such that if I have enough stamina I will give, in follow ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2018 - 10:08pm