Physics

Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity- Kicking Cosmic Butt Since 1915

Two new studies made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test (again) and the results show it is still the best game in town. Each team used observations of galaxy clusters, the largest o ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2010 - 3:22pm

Synchrotron radiation

Synchrotron Radiation ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Apr 15 2010 - 11:03am

Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Theory Event-Probability Interpretation

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.3425v1.pdf ...

Blog Post - Gunn Quznetsov - Apr 16 2010 - 4:22am

New Luminosity Record At The Tevatron

This is to inform you of the new luminosity record set today by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. The machine has been working excellently, improving its performance as the machinists found ways to obtain higher stacks of antiprotons, reducing inefficienc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 17 2010 - 11:22pm

Electroweak Symmetry And The Chocolate Interaction

Analogies are a powerful way to explain complicated scientific concepts. I use them as much as I can whenever I describe particle physics in this blog or when I give a outreach talk in a school. However, good ones are not always easy to find. One usually n ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 18 2010 - 7:06pm

To DORIS@DESY

Well, who exactly is DORIS?  “She” is actually the first Do ppel- Ri ng- S peicher (which translates neatly into English as “Double-Ring Storage”) at DESY, the D eutsches E lektronen Sy nchrotron in Hamburg.  It’s not the only one; the more recent PETRA ( ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 22 2010 - 9:55am

Minimalist Biographies Of Scientists- Add Your Own!

My friend Peppe Liberti, a physicist and blogger from southern Italy, sent me today a amusing list of essential biographies of scientists. I wish to share them with you here, after I explain what this is about. The rules of the game are quite simple: find ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 22 2010 - 11:48am

New Images Suggest Spin Can Be Manipulated

Physicists at Ohio University and the University of Hamburg in Germany have captured  the first images of atomic spin in action.  The research indicates that scientists can observe and perhaps manipulate spin, a finding that may impact future development o ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2010 - 4:26pm

The 450-GeV Quark That Wouldn't Go Away

Two years ago I discussed the results of a very interesting search performed by the CDF experiment in its dataset of 2-TeV proton-antiproton collisions, provided by the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab. The search focused on the hypothesis that a massive f ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 6 2010 - 5:21pm

The typo we craved for

Courtesy gizmodo: The typo we had been all waiting for. And there is already who fantasizes about the need for a Large Hardon Condom, to play it safe... Sorry for the reblogging, but this time I did not resist... ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 7 2010 - 8:11am