Physics

The Quote Of The Week- Electroweak Unification

"Leptons interact only with photons, and with the intermediate bosons that presumably mediate weak interactions. What could be more natural than to unite these spin-one bosons into a multiplet of gauge fields? Standing in the way of this synthesis ar ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 21 2010 - 2:19pm

The Language Barrier

And after all, it is just a matter of language. I am convinced that 99% of the reason why a person with no scientific background cannot follow the developments of a particular research topic, despite a strong will, is language. Not the lack of ten years of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2013 - 5:52pm

ICARUS Up And Running, Rubbia Announces

In a mail message sent to the INFN president Roberto Petronzio and a few other distinguished particle physicists (not me, I got it third-hand), Carlo Rubbia announced today at 3.53 PM that the ICARUS experiment has begun operations. Below is the unamended ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 27 2010 - 9:33pm

OPERA Sees Tau Neutrino Appearance!!

Not even a week has passed since the announcement by Carlo Rubbia that the ICARUS experiment is collecting its first neutrino interactions, that another experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory claims the international scene of neutrino physics. And this ti ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 1 2010 - 8:38am

Guess Fake Physics Papers

I just received by Matin Durrani, editor of Physics World, a link to a fun game, and thought I'd give it a try. The game consists in guessing which among two titles of physics papers is right, and which one is instead artificially generated by the sna ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 3 2010 - 9:06am

Scientists Create Radiation Absorption Device- An Artificial Black Hole

Researchers in China have created an electromagnetic absorbing device for microwave frequencies. The device, called an “omnidirectional electromagnetic absorber”, is made of a thin cylinder comprising 60 concentric rings of metamaterials and is capable of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2010 - 9:20am

News From The Third World Of Research- Italy

After two years spent saying that Italy has a strong economy and is doing better than the rest of Europe, and strongly criticizing whomever tried to warn that the economical crisis was not over yet, the Italian government led by Silvio Berlusconi has made ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 4 2010 - 9:46am

Plot Of The Week: Exclusive Diagrams

It is Sunday morning, and I am about to leave for a day on the beach, the first of this busy 2010; so this post will be shorter than I would like it to be... There would be lots to say about exclusive physics at colliders. But I still want to share with yo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2010 - 9:28am

Oscillations of the Chromatic States and Accelerated Expansion of the Universe

It is known (G. Quznetsov, Higgsless Glashow's and Quark-Gluon Theories and Gravity without Superstrings, Progress in Physics, 2009, v.3, 32-40) that probabilities of pointlike events are defined by some generalization of Dirac's equation. One pa ...

Blog Post - Gunn Quznetsov - Nov 25 2010 - 1:06am

CMS Bosons!

Ah, the joy to see bosons in our first 7-TeV proton-proton collisions at LHC! The CMS experiment has released two days ago its first results on W and Z bosons, plus many other riches. Of course, these plots are only demonstrative, since the statistics is s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2010 - 4:28am