Physics

My Bet? A Fourth Generation Quark

What picture should we draw of the quest for new phenomena after the presentation of a wealth of new results at the international conference on high-energy physics in Paris held last week? I am speaking in particular of results coming from the experiments ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 6 2010 - 5:30pm

The most simplistic explanation of M Theory.

When thinking of M theory and how it's popularized so much is said about it's wild and wonderful predictions.  However their is not much said about how to think of the M branes themselves.  I was at the beach today and thought as I was looking at ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 5 2010 - 8:17pm

It From Bit- The Whole Shebang

In the It-From-Bit series I have reported extensively on Verlinde's 'entropic gravity' concept. I have also provided you with an illustrative 'mikado universe' picture of entropic gravity. This got topped off with my own intuitive ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 9 2010 - 1:20am

Top Quark Asymmetry- Something Else To Watch

CDF and DZERO, the two experiments at the Fermillab Tevatron collider, have studied top quark production since their own discovery of the heavy particle in 1995 (see here, here, and here for a three-post history of the top quark quest). ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 10 2010 - 10:52am

The Language Barrier Attacked (1)

A multiplet is a simple thing to describe: it is a collection of several identical or nearly identical things. Here, however, a difficulty arises because a "multiplet" is a manifestation of symmetry groups, and symmetry groups are tough objects ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Aug 11 2010 - 5:40pm

Einstein was secretly a liberal conspirator!

I almost categorized this under Humor but it's more scary than funny... TPM highlights the Conservapedia argument against the theory of relativity: "The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promot ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 13 2010 - 1:13pm

New type of operator

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Blog Post - Hans van Leunen - Aug 15 2010 - 9:32am

W And Charm- Twice As Many As Predicted

W bosons have been thoroughly studied at the Tevatron collider. Discovered by the UA1 experiment at the CERN SppS proton-antiproton collider in 1984, these particles have since been produced also in electron-positron collisions at LEP II (in pairs), and re ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 15 2010 - 2:32pm

The Reason Of Existence Of Special Relativity

The redefiner Ɽ t can be mimicked by a trail of infinitesimal unitary transforms. Each subsequent trail element has eigenvectors that differ from those of its predecessor. These eigenvectors are also eigenvectors of Ɽ t. For a single vector, which is not a ...

Article - Hans van Leunen - Aug 16 2010 - 11:14am

Nicola Cabibbo Passed Away

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Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 16 2010 - 3:25pm