Physics

Guest Post: Carl Brannen On CP Violation

As today I have just published a piece on CP violation which lacks detail on the theoretical aspects of the issue, I think it is a good time to offer you here a post on the matter written by Carl Brannen, a independent researcher and now Ph.D. student who ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 29 2012 - 8:14am

DZERO: 23 MeV Uncertainty On W Boson Mass

Just a few days ago the CDF collaboration announced their new measurement of the W boson mass, with a considerable improvement over the precision of the current world average for that quantity. Now DZERO, the competitor experiment, has also published their ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 5 2012 - 5:39pm

Tautologically Totalitarian Totality And Why We Do Not Accept It

Quantum physics is close to the ultimate foundation of everything, but not because it is about little things. Quantum physics is not about little things; a radio-wave photon can be hundreds of meters long (in terms of wave length as well as coherence lengt ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 8 2012 - 11:24am

Quaternionic Versus Complex Probability Ampitude Distributions

Introduction It is a mathematical fact that both the real numbers and the rational numbers contain an infinite amount of elements. It is possible to devise a procedure that assigns a label containing a different natural number to every rational number. Th ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Mar 27 2012 - 2:38pm

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Studies Now Burgeoning Field

“ Why is there something rather than nothing? ” studies have become a field provided with copious Templeton funding. Yale recently had the 2011 WITA (Why is there Anything?) conference (see their blog), which was funded by the Templeton and Yale Divinity S ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 11 2012 - 2:20am

Snark Attack Avoided with Answers

Jan. 23, Slit Experiments and Coherence Patterns Snarky Puzzle The coherent source is often modeled as a plane wave. Write the quaternion valued plane wave like so: where A0 is the amplitude omega is an angular frequency k is a wave vector ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 7 2012 - 10:19pm

Bs To μμ: LHCb Getting There!

The Moriond EWK conference is in full swing and results are being shown of the recent new searches for rare decays of the Bs meson. The Bs is a hadron made up by a bottom quark and a (anti)strange one. The peculiar composition of this particle and its zero ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 6 2012 - 12:25pm

Tevatron Higgs Results Confirm LHC Signal!

2.2 standard deviations. That is what the combination of CDF and DZERO searches for the Higgs boson yield, according to a release of the interactions news wire. The talks on Higgs searches are scheduled for this morning at the Moriond Electroweak conferenc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 8 2012 - 5:30am

The Strangest Experiment Result of The Year

If 2011's strangest result was seeing neutrinos moving in excess of the velocity of light, how could 2012 top that. But an even stranger experimental result has come from Berezhiani and Nesti from the University of Aquila in Italy, who claim to have f ...

Blog Post - Barry Adams - Mar 11 2012 - 9:19am

Nanopoulos: Aroma Of Gluinos In LHC Data

It is a gloomy winter for most SUSY phenomenologists: as they sit and watch, the LHC experiments continue to publish their search results for Supersymmetric particles, producing tighter and tighter direct bounds on the masses of squarks and gluinos for a v ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 13 2012 - 2:00pm