Physics

The Say Of The Week

Particle Physics had a short fling with Numerology in its young years, but the two have never met again since then. TD ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 21 2009 - 4:15pm

Five Tips For Particle Physics Ph. D. Wannabes

Being a graduate student in particle physics is a tough, stressful job. I know it because I once was one, and I still remember the burden of giving exams, carrying on single-handedly a difficult analysis, and desperately struggling to learn the job of part ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 29 2009 - 6:05am

First Proton-Proton Collisions In CMS!

My blog is not a place for hot-off-the-press news- in it you are more likely to find discussions on material well digested and thought over. Nevertheless, I do not have the guts to sit on today's news. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has produced it ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 11 2009 - 11:44am

Five Tips For Particle Physics Ph. D. Wannabes- Part II

This is the second part of a two-part collection of tips for particle physics graduate students. The first part is here. Three: be a fool today if you want to be a guru tomorrow The third advice I have in store for Jane is maybe the toughest to follow, at ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 25 2009 - 4:39pm

Marking The Grand Arena Of Physical Reality

What is the size of the universe? How heavy is it? How big can black holes grow? How small are subatomic particles? How many orders of magnitude will I cross when going from the microscopic quantum world to the edge of the universe? Are we humans somewhere ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 4 2009 - 7:52pm

Energy-Efficient Computing Components? IBM Images Anatomy Of An Elegant Molecule!

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Article - Hatice Cullingford - Nov 27 2009 - 1:57pm

The Say Of The Week

" There is no such thing as a theoretical uncertainty. All there is is theoretical stupidity " Guido Altarelli ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2009 - 1:30pm

Flocks Of Birds- Flying Like A Pair

Can a subject be too remote from the domain of traditional physics for physicists to dare applying their methods of research to it? Unlikely. If the objects under investigation in some remote area of research can be subjected to clean and unambiguous expe ...

Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Nov 29 2009 - 11:22am

Cosmology of the big bang. Speculative theories and possible future proof.

I had an idea that the theories of the earliest stages of the universe were speculative.  I just never really knew how speculative until I really looked at them.  The  CMB  is as far back as we have actual data. From that we have to divine everything.  ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 29 2009 - 7:22pm

LHC Breaks Beam Energy Record!

Last night the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has circulated the highest-energy beams of particles ever produced. The beam energy has been brought up from the injection energy of 450 GeV to 1.18 TeV, thus outperforming by 20% the flattop beam energy of the ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2009 - 3:19am