Physics

The End of Time

Note to those in the various fields of Physics: You must read the entire paper. The language and style may seem contradictive from a mathematical standpoint in the early paragraphs. The paper is designed for a general audience. ...

Blog Post - David Cox - Dec 31 2009 - 8:45pm

One year in review-blog aside

Rather than writing down my new year's resolution, I find it more constructive to look back at the past year and draw some conclusions on it. I have already done some analysis concerning this blog in a recent post; this one is a more personal view of ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 1 2010 - 12:50pm

Luminosity, Michel Parameter, Phase Space: What A Lousy Title For A Great Post

After re-emerging from a rather debilitating new years' eve banquet, I feel I can provide my own answers to the second batch of physics questions I proposed a few days ago to the most active readers of this column. Be sure about one thing: the answers ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 2 2010 - 4:29pm

The Say of the Week

" Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. " Alfred Hitchcock ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 4 2010 - 12:13pm

Three Top Quarks: A Door To New Physics?

Today's visit to the Cornell Arxiv, the repository where scientific papers on physics, astrophysics, mathematics, and a few other disciplines are made publically accessible before getting published on paper, was a productive one. Some casual browsing ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 6 2010 - 2:30pm

It From Bit: The Case Of Gravity

Three weeks of speculations have come to an end. Since this morning Verlinde's paper is available on arXiv. ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 8 2010 - 2:00am

The Approved CMS Phi Signal From 900 GeV Data

Shoot. Today I am on strike. This morning I decided to post here an article describing the details of a new result just approved by the CMS collaboration, the observation of a nice signal of phi meson decays. It is a result of which I am quite proud, and a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 3 2011 - 8:36am

What is Space? A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics

  What is Space? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />    A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics ...

Blog Post - David Cox - Jan 8 2010 - 4:23pm

Businessweek takes on the LHC

Brad DeLong picks up on some nonsense in Businessweek: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 14 2012 - 2:29pm

An appetizer: Rare B Decay Asymmetries

As if taken by a spell, my joking claim to be on strike in the last post grew to become one of the longest streaks of absence from blogging of the last few months, for a series of irrelevant reasons tightly packed together. In the meantime I have tried to ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 12 2010 - 4:37pm