Physics

ICARUS Refutes Opera's Superluminal Neutrinos

The saga of the superluminal neutrinos took a dramatic turn today, with the publication of a very simple yet definitive study by ICARUS, another neutrino experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratories, who has looked at the neutrinos shot from CERN since 2010. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 18 2011 - 9:28am

ICARUS Proves Neutrinos At Least 10 Times Faster Than Light

A study by ICARUS re-investigated their neutrino experiments based on the article by Cohen and Glashow, who showed that superluminal neutrinos in standard model physics lose energy through neutral-current weak-interactions, which is somewhat like Cherenkov ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 20 2011 - 1:35am

Just Like Magic

It's been a while, Science 2.0. My excuse (if anybody needed one): I've been rather busy over the summer with fieldwork. Not a good excuse, admittedly. But, anyway, I'm back now! Anyway. There's a rather disparaging quote by Francis Bac ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Oct 19 2011 - 11:39am

Interpretations of the Opera Neutrino Speed Measurement

I was happy to see today a very nice piece discussing the Opera result on allegedly superluminal motion of muon neutrinos, written by Paolo Ciafaloni, a colleague from Lecce University. The piece is in Italian, so you either know the language or need to re ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 21 2011 - 11:55am

How SUSY Gets Excluded: A New ATLAS Search

October is passing and the neutrino saga continues to make headlines here and there, but I know that the excitement is bound to slowly dampen, as the preprint claiming superluminal speeds ages in the Arxiv without being sent to a scientific magazine. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2011 - 3:07pm

Einstein On Steroids: Dirac, The Higgs, And Speeding Neutrinos

So what is the deal with this 'cosmic speed limit'? Is it really unthinkable that neutrinos move faster than light?  ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Oct 23 2011 - 11:19pm

Getting Science Through: Misunderstood Terms In Science Communication

This morning I read with interest a paper on Physics Today, titled " Communicating the Science of Climate Change ", by R. Somerville and S. Hassol. In it, there is a table worth pondering about. Here it is: ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 24 2011 - 8:18am

Quaternionic Equations Of Motion For All Elementary Particles

This article eliminates the need for the Higgs. The quaternionic equation of motion of an elementary particle is in fact a continuity equation in which another quaternionic flavor ψʸ of the transporting field ψˣ is coupled with that transporting field via ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Feb 15 2012 - 2:19pm

Gravity is a Mystery (in words, no equations)

Gravity continues to work fine, even though we don't know why. Newton wrote down the first calculus based description. Gravity worked at a distance for reasons beyond our reach. Einstein developed a more accurate description with a little help from h ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Oct 29 2011 - 12:17pm

Four Papers Worth Browsing

A routine check of the hep-ex preprints in the Cornell Arxiv revealed today some interesting papers worth giving a look. At least, they are interesting to me: don't expect me to publicize stuff I do not understand or care about! Also, I should mention ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2011 - 3:38am