Physical Sciences

hear all the nuances in sound that a hearing person would enjoy." Unlike electrical current, which ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2011 - 11:41pm

are re-entrant into the data-analysis, persistently, and all data implicitly depend already on these ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 25 2012 - 5:40am

All of the outflows are roughly 1350 light-years from Earth. HH 34, HH 1, and HH 2 reside near the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2011 - 10:17am

all the probability is concentrated at N=0 in that case (P(0|0.01)=0.99)! The solution, of course, is ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 22 2011 - 5:39am

experiments!". True, but all these measurements are made in less QCD-dense environments: who are we to dictate ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 31 2012 - 11:05am

career. In this graph you see many peaks from dimuon resonances, all together in a wide mass spectrum ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 13 2012 - 5:42pm

all the "dijet garbage" at low energy for the specific purpose of observing W and Z bosons ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 26 2012 - 10:37am

conclusion, CMS has found a new baryon. A particle which is not a surprise-we know excited states of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 30 2012 - 10:35pm

that is a detail I will leave out of this post) towering over all backgrounds (in other colours). Note ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 23 2012 - 1:39pm

just the two main channels but all the five important final states (W boson pairs, b-quark pairs, and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2012 - 8:28am

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John
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John
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The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 14 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
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