Physics

What's Wrong With 'Relativity'?

In his book " Everything's Relative- And Other Fables From Science And Technology " Tony Rothman writes:  " [The term] 'special relativity' is probably the greatest misnomer in the history of science " I wholeheartedly ag ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 27 2010 - 1:08am

How Planes Fly Or How Polarized Debates Are Wrong Versus Wrong

The old discussion about how an airplane, that is many tons of steel, can keep staying supported in mere air, is a perfect example for how discussions way too often polarize into two camps with both sides being wrong. Little headway is possible once any a ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 27 2010 - 4:52pm

Personal Highlights of 2010

I know that some of the visitors of this blog are surprised to find personal stuff in my column every now and then. However, a blog is an online diary, and I do leave here my personal thoughts if I feel like it. This is one of those times. If you are not c ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 2 2011 - 3:27am

AMAZING SCIENCE

NEW THEORIES OF COSMOLOGY for OPEN DISCUSSION       History of the science always showed that the science is like a mirage. People will think that science has reached to an end,there is no further discoveries etc,. But all the time we found that still we ...

Blog Post - Siva Prasad Kodukula - Jan 5 2011 - 4:10am

Unknown Physics Of Particle Orbital Momentum

Everybody knows that the orbital momentum  is "quantized" and its z-projection  has integer eigenvalues in units of . Too few, however, know that it is, in fact, a quasi-particle angular momentum which is integer-valued, not the particle one! ...

Article - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Jan 5 2011 - 4:38pm

New Higgs Cross Sections For The LHC

In case you haven't noticed, there is a new paper in the arxiv which you should not ignore if you are doing Higgs physics at the LHC. Of course, most of you are not involved in this, but still, it may feel good to know that there has recently been a c ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 4 2011 - 6:07pm

Entropy Is Not Disorder

The Mystery of Entropy (1)     What is entropy and what does entropy have to do with order and disorder? We know what order is. The concepts of order and disorder have been part of our consciousness since long before the notion of entropy was ever invente ...

Blog Post - Steve Donaldson - Nov 17 2012 - 12:30am

My Dark Beam Ice Cube Torch

How does an electrical torch or flashlight work? According to the usual description, the lamp inside produces light, this light is shone on the objects we desire to see, partially reflected from their surfaces, and finally some of that light is captured b ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 3 2015 - 7:20pm

Three Things To Look Forward To

Ok, I promise- my next post here will be a highly interesting article on the status of searches for new heavy Z bosons. In the meantime, however, I allow myself another "personal" post. After an evaluation of 2010 from the point of view of resear ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 6 2011 - 1:09pm

The case of the trilobite molecule- part 2

I am sorry, this is not yet supposed to be published, but I also do not want to delete the content. This is work in progress, somehow the option to keep an "yet unpublished version" disappeared. You are thus welcome to follow my editing process ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Jan 8 2011 - 6:15am