Physics

Is math inherently part of the structure of the universe?

In another thread on Science 2.0 we got onto the nature of existence and what we can say for certain about the universe (if anything).  Given that physics and math seem so intimately linked in practice, I often wonder if this link is "real".  In ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 22 2010 - 12:23pm

The Max Planck Medal To Giorgio Parisi

I am very happy to report here (after having done the same on my Greek blog first, for a change) that the "Max Planck" medal for 2011 has been assigned to Giorgio Parisi, a distinguished Italian theoretical physicist. I first got the welcome new ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 25 2010 - 7:14am

My first scientific paper

Effect of embedding Fe3O4 nanoparticles in silica spheres on the optical transmission properties of three-dimensional magnetic photonic crystals ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Nov 25 2010 - 1:56pm

The Say Of The Week

" I learned the stopping-rule principle from Professor Barnard in conversation in the summer of 1952. Frankly, I then thought it a scandal that anyone in the profession could advance an idea so patently wrong, even as today I can scarcely believe that ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 26 2010 - 8:17am

MSSM Reach Of An Extended Tevatron Running

The time is now. If you are going to fantasize about the possibilities of an extended Tevatron running and how likely it is that your favourite physics model may be tested by CDF and DZERO, you are advised to get in the game. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2010 - 7:07pm

Smolin Vs Susskind: The Judge’s Decision Part 2

Physics hunts for the ultimate theory; at least that is what the media and people like L. Susskind and M. Tegmark tell us incessantly what physics is all about (god particle, ultimate string theory landscape, ultimate ensemble, and all that). If you are af ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 2 2010 - 9:22am

Uli Baur

I was quite saddened today to hear the bad news that Uli Baur passed away prematurely yesterday. Uli was a professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, and his research interests focused on electroweak phenomenology. I knew Uli as I worked with him ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 30 2010 - 4:55am

The Say Of The Week

"So string theory is certainly among the directions that deserve more investigation. But should it continue to be regarded as the dominant paradigm of theoretical physics? Should most of the resources aimed at the solution of the key problems in theo ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 2 2010 - 3:56pm

Zoom In Atom Or Unknown Physics Of Short Distances

H 0 charge "clouds" in |4,3,1> state.         In about 1985, while considering a banal problem of scattering from atoms, I occasionally discovered the positive-charge (second) atomic form-factors                                             de ...

Article - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Dec 9 2010 - 5:39pm

Why There Is Something Instead Of Nothing

Why is there anything? It is kind of conceivable that there could be no thing 'existing' at all – no world, no universes, no consciousness. However, there is at least something. The opposite of “there is something” is “there isn’t anything (e.g. ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 11 2013 - 4:00am