Physics

Analogy Watch: Muon Collisions And The Machine That Will See Them

The most recent issue of symmetry magazine has a feature titled, " When Muons Collide," by Leah Hesla. [Full disclosure: I have also written for symmetry.] The article lays out the need for a muon collider as well as theoretical plans for buildi ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Nov 8 2010 - 4:47pm

Criticism Of A Paper In Support of Run III

The arxiv is featuring a new paper by Darien Wood, member and spokesperson of the DZERO experiment and a distinguished physicist with lots of experience in hadron collider physics. The paper is titled " The Physics Case for Extended Tevatron Running & ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 22 2010 - 1:37am

Limits To Science: God, Godel, Gravity

Stupid physicists, they are doomed. Spending their whole lives searching for a theory of everything, not knowing that some eighty years ago this was proven to be logically impossible.  The internet is full with sentiments like the above. Many such posts re ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Nov 12 2010 - 10:48pm

Not Afraid Of The Dark: Dark Energy As The Ultimate Sisyphus

Many are troubled by dark energy. I will tell you first why dark energy is really crazy. Then I tell you that the crazy part is not actually the problem of dark energy, but one of basic general relativity. Many educated people are proudly critical of dark ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 21 2012 - 7:37am

New Limits on the MSSM Higgs by DZERO

The DZERO collaboration  published a few days ago the results of their search for multi-b-quark signatures of Supersymmetry in a large dataset of proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV. The possible large coupling of higgs bosons to b-quarks makes search ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 18 2010 - 7:54pm

Antimatter Trapped And Stored For The First Time

Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN.  ALPHA stored atoms of antihydrogen, consisting of a single negatively charged antiproton orbited by a sing ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2010 - 3:20pm

A Geometric Theory Of Everything

Scientific American features an excellent article by Garrett Lisi and James Owen Weatherell, with title " A Geometric Theory of Everything ". It is a rather clear explanation of the ideas behind the recent articles published by Lisi on the E8 gro ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 21 2010 - 4:44am

The difference between matter, antimatter, dark matter, and negative matter

Here I will explain the difference between matter, anti matter, dark matter, and negative matter in a concise and understandable way.   I have seen confusion pop up in various online forums and comments on the recent announced trapping of an anti atom by C ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 23 2010 - 10:59pm

Z Bosons From Heavy Ion Collisions

A really interesting piece of news comes from the CERN laboratory today. The CMS experiment has detected a handful of Z boson decays in events featuring the collision between heavy ions, accelerated to energies of hundreds of GeV per nucleon. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2010 - 10:15am

Smolin Vs Susskind: The Judge’s Decision Part 1

At the Edge you can find a rather interesting discussion between Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind, involving all the stuff I try to demystify often. They fought via email, then agreed to each write a final letter on the edge. And today you can read the fina ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 1 2011 - 5:48am