Physics

A Quantum Deity?

A little known fact about quantum mechanics is that it disproves God's omniscience. Now, we all know that a watched pot never boils. What does this have to do with God's omniscience? Well, did you also know that an unwatched electron doesn' ...

Blog Post - Keith Adams - Nov 10 2009 - 6:34pm

Pictures Of A Giant Marvel

Today I got access to a collection of very cool pictures of the CMS detector, one of the two experiments designed and built to study proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Many of those pictures, which were taken by Michae ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 12 2009 - 6:33pm

More On The Omega B Baryon Significance

Last May the CDF collaboration published their observation of the  baryon, a particle made by a very exotic "bss" quark triplet. The CDF result came almost one year after a similar measurement was published by the competitor experiment, D0. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2009 - 1:04pm

Some words about the principle of least action

What is the most important object physicists manipulate everyday? My answer with no hesitation is: the Lagrangian! What is it? simply the object that contain everything one need to know about a given physical system. ...

Blog Post - A. L. B - Nov 16 2009 - 3:54pm

Religion and Science Finally meet through "Peace" and Understanding"

The “Om” from you tube is profoundly pleasant. I agree with the traditions, thoughts and expressions presented here. Obviously based on Sanskrit’s from Buddhism and Hinduism I still agree with the content while technically labeling myself a practicing Chri ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 16 2009 - 5:57pm

Consciousness and the brain- my response to you tube's "Quantum Phyics" welcome to the martrix

Friday, October 16, 2009 Consciousness and the brain- my response to you tube's "Quantum Phyics" welcome to the martrix Bill A Peoples October 16 at 4:08pm AFTER SPELL CHECK LOL--- ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 16 2009 - 6:01pm

Nielsen On CNN: Nonsense Broadcasts Better Than Hard Facts

Today CNN features a short video with an interview to Professor Nielsen, the mastermind behind the whole "Higgs comes back from the future to prevent its own creation" crap.  I wrote about the matter a couple of times in the past, and will not re ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2009 - 6:38pm

A personal perspective on the evolution of physics

The decision to pursue physics in my tertiary years sprang from a rather naive mindset of my youth: the belief that this constantly evolving field had cracked open the chest of mysteries that we normally call ‘life’. As much as I struggle to recall the spe ...

Blog Post - Lam Nguyen - Nov 18 2009 - 4:24am

New Z Bosons That LHC Can Discover In Three Months

I recently discussed here the Tevatron results of searches for new Z bosons in electron-positron or dimuon samples collected by CDF and DZERO, pointing out that there seem to be a couple of intriguing upward fluctuations in the data. One of the dielectron ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 18 2009 - 3:49pm

New Tevatron Higgs Limits Got Worse, But The 115 GeV Excess Is Growing!

It happens in the best families, so they say. Two experiments work 24/7 to produce an improved result on the Higgs search, and the result is disappointing, to say the least. I am talking about the Tevatron, of course. For a little while longer, CDF and D0 ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2009 - 7:11am