Physics

Celebrating Picture for 11 Inverse Femtobarns

While the LHC runs like a swiss train and collects dozens of inverse picobarns a day, there's a celebration going on on the other side of the Atlantic, as this picture testifies: The folks pictured here at the Fermilab village have a reason to cheer u ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 25 2011 - 6:19am

What Is An Inverse Femtobarn?

Since Science 2.0 first came online, we have been excited about the Tevatron in Illinois because, statistically, by 2011 the famous Fermi experiment in Batavia,IL would have accumulated 10 inverse femtobarns of data and that means the Higgs, if it exists, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 27 2011 - 11:56am

Upsilon Suppression Paper Link

The Upsilon suppression paper by CMS is now public, and you can find it here. I decided to put an entry here since several people asked me to access the information... Note that this paper is a quite important publication, which not only deals with Y suppr ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 26 2011 - 9:13am

Guess The Plot 3- Solution

The figure for you to guess which I posted two days ago is built with simulated events featuring the production, at the Tevatron collider, of a Z boson (decaying to electron-positron or muon-antimuon pairs) together with an energetic photon. Apart from Tul ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 26 2011 - 3:43pm

Undergraduate Student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie Solves 'Missing Mass' Problem

Amelia Fraser-McKelvie   is not a career researcher or a post-doctoral fellow or even in graduate school, but working on a summer scholarship at the Monash School of Physics, she conducted a targeted X-ray search for the matter called the Universe's & ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2011 - 11:27am

The Say Of The Week

"CERN is a Lab of culinary splendor and architectural catastrophe and Fermilab is the other way around" L. Lederman, "The God Particle" ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 28 2011 - 3:26pm

Hidden Variable Madness

Let us try to model the experiment described in “ Disproving Local Realism ” with help of tennis balls. 800 pairs of tennis balls are each prepared, say some instructions are written on them, and then split. One ball is always thrown to Alice on the left; ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 6 2013 - 5:56am

Star Systems are Atoms?

What if what we thought, and held most dear, about the fundamentals of physical science was wrong? That atoms and quantum particles were not what we believed them to be. That planets, star systems and the Universe itself had a far more intrinsic correlati ...

Blog Post - Robert DeMelo - May 29 2011 - 10:50pm

Spooky World Or Crazy Mind: Nonlocal Realism Versus Local Antirealism

Why does local realism being wrong imply that non-local reality is true? Such is widely opined to be the only sober solution because it conserves good old reality, the scientists’ fort that is to be defended against the onslaught of magic. However, realit ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 20 2013 - 3:44am

Why Quantum Mechanics Is Weird

The video “ Why Quantum Mechanics is Weird ” (25k views) won the 2005 Berkeley Video&Film Festival Best of Festival Award in Education. That is second place, behind a Grand Festival Award which went to a film on polar bears (much cuter than me talking ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jun 8 2011 - 11:17pm