Physics

Firm Evidence Of A Higgs Boson At Last!

Updates:- Philip Gibbs does a great job, as always, at combining-albeit approximately- the results of different experiments in the Higgs search. He now has even a full combination of LEP II + Tevatron + CMS + ATLAS, where the signal strength, in SM units, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 6 2012 - 12:32am

What A Standard Model Higgs Could Mean for Theoretical Physics

News like today's new evidence for a standard model light * (~125 Gev) Higgs particle does much for theoretical physics.  In one fell swoop many theories can be ruled out.  While at the same time other theories gain direct support.  Still other theor ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 16 2011 - 2:34am

Higgs Discovery Rehabilitating Despised Einstein Ether

Firm evidence for the discovery of a Higgs particle has now been officially announced. This means the "Higgs ether" exists. But did not Einstein tell us that there is no ether? Poor Albert is getting punched hard these days. We just survived the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 2 2012 - 9:23am

Eilam Gross: Higgs- The Best There Is, For Now

Eilam Gross is a professor of Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science of Rehovot, Israel, and a distinguished member of the ATLAS collaboration. That makes him a competitor, since I work for the other experiment around the ring, CMS. But Eilam is als ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 14 2011 - 5:56pm

Einstein Got It Wrong, Can You Do Better?

Quantum physics describes a universe that is profoundly mysterious. Einstein, arguably the most revolutionary thinker of modern times, struggled greatly with quantum theory. This groundbreaking new perspective, ironically triggered by his own early work, s ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 20 2011 - 11:05pm

Higgs: What Is The God Particle And Why Should I Care?

So much sound and fury over the Higgs Boson, signifying what? A complete understanding of the fundamental constituents of the world in which we live? Of the universe of which we are an integral part? No … and yes. High-energy physicists at CERN, the Europ ...

Article - Michael Gamble - Dec 15 2011 - 5:15pm

LHCb Confirms CDF Measurement Of Omega_B Mass

Another confirmation of correct evaluation of controversial HEP measurements awaited me just after the Higgs evidence was presented at CERN. I am sort of embarassed by this compulsory self-promotion, but this is my blog so I will excuse myself;-) So the st ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 15 2011 - 10:42pm

Using Polls To Question Evidence

Particle physics experiments usually invest a considerable part of the time used to produce a measurement in the task of determining the corresponding uncertainty on the estimate, or-when a new effect is observed (say a quantity is measured away from zero, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 16 2011 - 5:40am

Do Trapped Surfaces of Penrose & Hawking Ever Form?

At the outset, let me  begin with some preliminaries: Consider an evolving spherically symmetrical fluid and divide it into concentric spheres in such a manner that, despite evolution, the number of particles (or baryons) remain fixed for each sphere.  Thi ...

Blog Post - Abhas Mitra - Dec 23 2011 - 11:11pm

The Say Of The Week- D'Agostini: Practically Everybody

" [...] practically nobody took very seriously the CDF claim (not even most members of the collaboration, and I know several of them), while practically everybody is now convinced that the Higgs boson has been finally caught at CERN – no matter if th ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 19 2011 - 3:09am