Physics

The Say Of The Week

" I do not understand why journalists and others want to know about the latest discoveries in physics even when they know nothing about the earlier discoveries that give meaning to the latest discoveries " Richard Feynman (quoted by G.F.Giudice, ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2010 - 7:41am

Should Greene and Kachru Work On String Theory?

In my friend Peter Woit's blog I read an interesting account of an interview to Greene and Kachru, two leading string theorists. Here is an excerpt, which Peter got from the World's Science Festival: John Hockenberry, the panel’s moderator, aske ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 10 2010 - 3:59pm

David Beckham- Physicist (And A Poissonian Process For Predicting Soccer Goals)

Is David Beckham a keen physicist?   Though he wouldn't know how to do the equations on a chalkboard, he certainly does it in his head and then with his feet- so perhaps he is an experimental physicist at heart. I've often used baseball to talk a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 12 2010 - 11:21pm

A Zeptospace Odyssey- Gian Giudice's Brilliant New Book

Today is a good day: I can rest in peace without working out my daily share of science popularization here, because I have something better to do, which will have a much more sizable positive effect for the diffusion of particle physics. In fact, I hold in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 12 2010 - 6:43am

Will Do Physics For A Meal

Today, for the first time in 18 years of association to the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), I leave for a trip abroad, to the CERN laboratories, on my own wallet. The situation into which basic research has been thrown by our crazy go ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 13 2010 - 4:16am

Plot Of The Week- A SUSY Higgs At 150 GeV?

The CDF Collaboration has recently produced results of a search for Supersymmetric Higgs bosons in events with three or more bottom-quark jets. Here I wish to give just the highlights of this analysis, but before I do I will try to spend 5' on making ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 30 2010 - 6:56am

Who Has The Best Limit On Bs Mesons?

The DZERO collaboration just sent to the Cornell ArXiv a paper which presents their new precise cross-section limits for the rare decay of mesons into pairs of muons. This important new article hides a small controversy, at least to my untrained eye. And s ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 20 2010 - 3:38pm

Your Thoughts On Peer Review Needed

On July 4th I will speak at ESOF 2010, in Torino (Italy), about the topic of " What's up with peer review: The future of peer review in policy, research and public debates ", in a panel which includes Philip Campbell, editor in chief of Natu ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2010 - 6:06am

X-Rayed Pin-Ups: Too Much Of A Good Thing

Naked girls as you have never seen them before: Eizo, a Japanese company, has an interesting way to advertise their radiological products. I'd comment that seeing underneath clothing might be good for a pervert, but it takes a bigger pervert to apprec ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 22 2010 - 1:08am

Ghost In The Physics Machine- Sizing Up The Mass Of A Neutrino

A neutrino has a mass, physics says, but it is elusive to figure out and extremely hard to measure – a neutrino is capable of passing through a light year (about six trillion miles) of lead without hitting a single atom. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2010 - 9:49am