Physics

Lagging Behind- Will answer in due time!

This is an apology and a promise- as every time there is a big event or deadline, everything else gets pushed down, creating a long backlog. My mailbox is in an awful state, and here too I am doing a very bad job answering questions. The fact that I will b ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 5 2012 - 3:38am

Dark Matter Filaments Detected In Abell 222 And Abel 223 Supercluster

Dark matter and dark energy is thought to account for up to 80% of the matter in the universe. Does it exist? Well, it has to, we just can't see it. So what is it? We better know what it isn't. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2012 - 7:13pm

Seeing the Higgs Everywhere

I am seeing H everywhere this morning! The picture below was taken yesterday near CERN, but today, upon walking to my department, I see H reflected on the front windows too... ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2012 - 3:50am

My Two Pieces On The Higgs

Yesterday the Italian newspaper "Il Manifesto" featured two pieces written by yours truly on the discovery of the Higgs boson. I was delighted to have a chance to write for that newspaper, which has an illustrious history and is totally independe ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2012 - 4:40am

Higgs or not Higgs, that is the matter!

Has LHC observed "the" Higgs boson or do we have to deal with something more exotic? After the seminar held on July the 4th at Cern, many online newspapers have published titles reporting the "discovery" of the Higgs boson, better the ...

Blog Post - Corrado Ruscica - Jul 13 2012 - 10:00am

God Does Play Dice With The Universe (And The Dice Are Fair)

Want to get into a bar fight at a physics conference? Argue that quantum mechanics is the best way to predict outcomes. Or argue the opposite. A new paper argues that quantum mechanics is close to optimal  in terms of its predictive power but  even if all ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 13 2012 - 10:20am

Looking at the Real Numbers the Z2 Way

What I enjoy most is upsetting my own apple cart, presumptions about how things are as provided by my earliest teachers.  The image I learned about real numbers has negative numbers on the left, positive numbers on the right, and a zero sitting in the mid ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 11 2012 - 11:11pm

Last Weekly Blog

The Higgs has been discovered, so this is the last of my Monday/Tuesday weekly blogs.  Blogging at Science 2.0 achieved my primary goal: debunking my GEM unified field proposal.  Part of that work suggested there was "no stinkin' Higgs".  T ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 9 2012 - 11:31pm

Apology to my ATLAS Colleagues

I realize I owe an apology to my ATLAS colleagues. In a post-Higgs-announcement article where I was listing some random "post-mortem" considerations, I wrote a paragraph which could be read as an accusation of malpractice in one of the recent ATL ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 10 2012 - 5:30am

The SM Rules: Four Bets Won, $1200 Claimed

The path of the LHC experiments to the successful observation of a Higgs boson has not been the smoothest I could think of, with delays in construction, incidents, and the like; but we are finally there. And now, with over 10/fb of data fully analyzed and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 11 2012 - 4:27am