Physics

The Nobel In Physics 2010: Place Your Bets!

A week from now, Tuesday October 5th, the winner(s) of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics will be announced. Predicting the Nobel laureates in physics is notoriously difficult. As part of their overall Nobel prize predictions, each year Thomson Reuters attem ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 27 2010 - 11:53am

Four LHC Experiments, Three Italian Spokespersons

With the fresh news of the election of Pierluigi Campana as spokesperson of the LHCb experiment, the Italian participation to the LHC experiments at the CERN laboratories is close to a grand slam: three of the four experiments along the ring are led by Ita ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 27 2010 - 5:03pm

Duality – The World Has No Dimensionality At All

Duality is one of the most important insights in physics and philosophy of physics. What does duality mean? It means that there are dual descriptions of one and the same observed physics. Duality implies that you cannot possibly decide whether the one des ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 25 2011 - 11:44pm

1992 Physics Nobel Prize Georges Charpak, 1924-2010

Georges Charpak, a French physicist and 1992 Nobel Prize winner, died yesterday. Of Polish origin, Charpak gave crucial contributions to experimental physics, in particular for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber in 1968. Back then, the si ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2010 - 4:22pm

How Important Is To Know The Value Of The Top Quark Mass?

I will be attending next week to a conference in Split (Croatia). The conference is titled " LHC Days ", and has the purpose of bringing together experimental physicists working at the main CERN experiments with theorists and experimentalists fro ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2010 - 4:20pm

Why Physicists Are Smug

Over at Cosmic Variance Sean Carroll is fighting an interesting battle. In a series of recent blogs that started under the title " The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood " he is making the claim that physicists ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Oct 2 2010 - 6:58pm

POP Physics: The Free Nanotech Scientific Journal Article Generator

No, the following does not belong into the humor section, because I know of people who made a career with the method described below. This is serious! This is another article in my series on the usual cheating in science. POP-science culture (POP = publish ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 23 2010 - 9:58pm

Altarelli: "Approximately Impossible" That LHC Fails

I am spending a few pleasant days in Split for the conference "LHC Days". I will be representing the D0 and CDF collaborations here in a talk on top physics at the Tevatron; in the meantime, I am pleased to witness that talks are of high quality. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 4 2010 - 2:53pm

2010 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To Andre Geim And Konstantin Novoselov For Graphene Work

Sorry, cosmic acceleration, this was not your year.   The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene ". Without question  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2010 - 12:02pm

On The Higgs Reach Of An Extended Tevatron Run

Last Tuesday I presented new precise Tevatron results on top quark physics at the " LHC Days " conference in Split. The top-quark measurements that CDF and DZERO have produced with their multi-inverse-femtobarn datasets of proton-antiproton colli ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 7 2010 - 3:23am