Physics

Electron Beams Whip Up A Quantum Tornado

A group of researchers have developed w hat are known as vortex beams- rotating electron beams- which make it possible to investigate the magnetic properties of materials and in the future it may be possible to manipulate the tiniest components in a target ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2010 - 3:03am

The Say Of The Week- Kendall On Bayesians

" If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously, we should all be saved a lot of trouble ". [Maurice Kendall, famous British statistician, talking of Bayesians (statisticians who employ Bayes' theorem and Bayes' approach to s ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 19 2010 - 12:35pm

Greek Versions Of Articles On Demand

I am currently running an experiment, with multiple aims. I have created a new blog in wordpress, where I intend to publish a translation to modern Greek of selected articles that I have written in the past. The first attempt is already there (work is in p ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 21 2010 - 5:08am

Black Holes Demystified

Black holes draw audiences, because they are weird, they are profound, they are Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking rolled into a singularity. Or some such – except, none of this is actually the case. The black hole is a much more mundane concept, older tha ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 11 2011 - 2:41am

New Physics With CMS? Huhm.

I devote only a short piece today to the topic of the week-or the month- in particle physics: as many of you already know, yesterday the CMS collaboration has made public the results of their analysis of two-particle correlations, which evidences an effect ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 22 2010 - 5:15am

The Keep-Looking Bias

Despite time is a scarce resource for me these days, and my "working time balance" shows deep red, I am presently spending some of it to investigate a very interesting statistical effect of general nature, although specially connected to the issu ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 23 2010 - 5:15am

Einstein's Relativity Is Making Tall People Age Faster Than Short

Scientists know that time passes faster at higher elevations.  It's a curious aspect of Einstein's theories of relativity that previously had to be measured by comparing clocks on the Earth's surface and rockets. But NIST physicists have mad ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2010 - 1:19pm

The Say Of The Week

"At that time, although recognized for the very high quality and reliability of its accelerator engineering, CERN unfortunately did not have a similar reputation in its physics, and it was still recovering from disasters such as the "split A2&quo ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 25 2010 - 8:04am

LHC Surpasses The Tevatron As A Top And Higgs Factory!

The Large Hadron Collider is increasing gradually the number of proton bunches that circulate in the machine. Yesterday's fill saw 104 colliding proton bunches,  producing the record instantaneous luminosity of 3.5 x 10^31 collisions per square centim ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2010 - 3:46pm

Andrew Pickering

Pickering is quite a name in the philosophy of science, or science studies, sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK), or science and technology studies (STS). He is especially interested in physics and writes about so called “old” versus “new” science.  He ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2012 - 9:56pm