Physics

Putin's Nuclear Threats Over Ukraine. Distance And Dirt Will Keep You Safer From Radioactive Fallout.

T he harsh truth of nuclear war in our modern era is not that everyone would die right away but that hundreds of millions would die in the combatant states while hundreds of millions would have to survive radiation and starvation. If you are one who sees ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 1 2022 - 2:30pm

Where The Power Of Deep Learning Is

Over the course of the past two decades we have witnessed the rise of deep learning as a paradigm-changing technology. Deep learning allows algorithms to dramatically improve their performance on multivariate analysis tasks. Deep neural networks, in partic ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 8 2022 - 5:30am

Cancel Culture In Science?

Like the vast majority of readers of this column, I very strongly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing atrocities. War is never an answer to international controversies. And I would like to add: I am in favor of all sanctions that financ ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 11 2022 - 6:09pm

The Future Of Experimental Design

Ever since experimental physics was a thing, the worth of scientists could be appraised by how carefully they designed their experiments, making sure that their devices could answer as precisely as possible the questions that crowded their mind. Indeed, th ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2022 - 2:26pm

Fermilab's New Results Bend But Do Not Break The Standard Model Of Particle Physics

I t is very unlikely that Fermilab’s new findings on the mass of the Wboson mean that the standard model is broken. It will be exciting if it does.  This is not to say that their experimental findings are wrong. Fermilab themselves propose the much more l ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 7 2022 - 11:16pm

Is The CDF W Mass Measurement A Nail In The SM Coffin?

No.... Ok, ok, I will elaborate. But first I feel the need to explain what we are talking about here, to anybody who does not have a Ph.D. in particle physics and is still reading this column. Background: The Tevatron, CDF, and the W boson ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 9 2022 - 11:47am

After 3 Years Of Maintenance, The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Back Into Collision Shape

The world’s largest particle accelerator is back in business. Today, two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider’s 27-kilometer ring at their injection energy of 450 billion electronvolts (450 GeV), marking the c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2022 - 1:06pm

Learning To Discover

The "Learning to Discover" workshops and "AI and Physics" conference are taking place at Institut Pascal, a centre set on the top of a hill surrounded by woods near Orsay, France. The event focuses on new artificial intelligence techniq ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 25 2022 - 6:36am

Veritasium Is Still Wrong About How Electricity Actually Works, By His Own Standards, And Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics.

V eritasium is still wrong by his own standards because he did not give the full real explaination which is rooted in the real theory of electricity and magnetism.  Quantum Electro Dynamics.  In fact with that theory in hand the way this works out is more ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 2 2022 - 1:02pm

A Joint Discussion Forum For Physicists Of Particles, Nuclei, Neutrinos, And The Cosmos

As I write these few lines, I am sitting in the nice auditorium at CSIC in Madrid, where I came for a congress that is a bit different to many others that take place around the world at all times. Truth be told, covid-19 took a big hit on the organization ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 4 2022 - 4:55am