Physics

ICHEP Blog!

Every two years particle physicists meet at a conference which is just a bit more important, more well-attended, and more prestigious than all the others that pester our agendas every other week. This conference is called ICHEP- the International Conferenc ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 8 2010 - 7:28am

What Is A Tipping Point?

What Is A Tipping Point? The term 'tipping point' is in widespread use in English, but what does it mean? Imagine a child's seesaw with an empty bucket on each end.  The seesaw is initially at rest with one end touching the ground.  If left ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 8 2010 - 4:04pm

The Say of the Week- Following the Right Vocation

" Why didn't these people follow their true vocation ending in a white-collar office, rather than breaking the balls to whom does Physics? " (Anonymous physics researcher from unnamed experiment, upon experiencing endless strings of meaningl ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 10 2010 - 12:36pm

The ever-growing workload

This is going to be a short post where I confess my recent troubles with keeping everything going on at full speed in my life, while the workload constantly grows. I believe it is a temporary problem-I have experienced the same situation in the past- but I ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 12 2010 - 4:06pm

Scientists, Ye Pedantic Jerks

Academics pay a lot of attention to the quality of their writings. It is generally a point of pride to publish flawless documents, and this is felt in scientific disciplines just as much as in literary ones. If I told you how much time the members of a sci ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2010 - 11:11am

A Dispensable Discovery

While around the world particle physicists are working frantically to produce important new results to be shown at ICHEP 2010-the International Conference on High-Energy Physics, which is held every two years and is arguably the single most important meeti ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2010 - 10:16am

The Plot Of The Week- News On CP Violation

If you follow the blogosphere as a source of information on cutting-edge high-energy-physics results, you certainly by now know that the DZERO collaboration has produced a new exciting result. They find a 3.2 standard deviation effect in a study of charge ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2010 - 9:56am

Paper Sent!!!!!!!!

Finally, the Bose-Einstein Correlations article by CMS to which I have personally contributed during the last few months is now an arxiv entry, and has been sent to Physical Review Letters. This is a success for the CMS collaboration, since we are the firs ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 19 2010 - 6:28am

Rhythm Determines Musical Taste Better Than Genre

Listening to music based on the genre it belongs to may lead you away from songs or albums you would actually enjoy, say the authors of a study in the New Journal of Physics. The research shows that searching for the temporal aspects of songs – their rhyth ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2010 - 11:16am

Einstein Got It Wrong About Brownian Motion, Physicists Claim

Albert Einstein said scientists would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, but physicist at the University of Texas say they have done so. In 1907, Einstein like ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2010 - 3:59pm