Physics

Two Jets, Two Protons, Nothing Else

I was delighted to receive news this afternoon of three new interesting results produced by the DZERO collaboration in the analysis of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. QCD, the theory of strong interactions between quarks and gluons, is the "bo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 12 2010 - 9:20pm

Frequencies of Disasters

How to explain resonance to a non-scientist? A few years back I heard a guest speaker on BBC Radio 4 trying to explain the resonance effects of pulsed microwave radiation on the brain in contrast to the thermal effects of the carrier frequency: sadly he fa ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 13 2010 - 2:02am

Worlds in Collision- Run Your Own Solar System

In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky published his bestselling Worlds in Collision, where he proposed that Venus was once a satellite of Jupiter that went AWOL and caused catastrophes on Earth as it flew past. Nobody believes this now, and few believed it then eith ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 16 2010 - 12:03am

Higgs Mass Limits: 130-210 GeV!!

A brand new result in Higgs boson physics has been presented by my old-time CDF colleague Wei-Ming Yao at the Moriond QCD conference two days ago. It is the combination of CDF and DZERO limits on the Higgs boson, and it constitutes a significant advancemen ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 19 2010 - 11:15am

Quasicrystals

Quasicrysstals ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Jul 1 2010 - 5:19am

Blocking temperature

Blocking Temperature 1. Superparamagnetism ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Dec 10 2010 - 2:25pm

Cold Fusion Press Conference Video: ACS 2010

The American Chemical Society's Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition includes numerous research findings in the field of cold fusion, also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Here is the video of the live press conference that gives a ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 22 2010 - 2:09pm

The Best Top Mass Measurement Ever!

It makes me very happy when I see new precise results on the mass of the top quark being produced by the CDF collaboration (to which I still proudly belong). CDF, one of the two hadron collider experiments operating at the 2-TeV Tevatron proton-antiproton ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 24 2010 - 7:18pm

3.76 E 32

The number in the title, interpreted in units per square centimeters per second, is a flux rate, and it is a new world record set by the Tevatron collider last night on the number of protons and antiprotons forced to cross each other within a tiny interact ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 26 2010 - 3:37pm

Quantum Entanglement In The Visible Universe

Quantum mechanics has been around for a hundred years and continues to fascinate and astonish scientists. It has been phenomenally successful at explaining the microscopic universe at the level of atoms and elementary particles and yet classical mechanics ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 26 2010 - 6:36pm