Physics

CDF W JJ Resonance Closer To 5 Sigma Now

The fact that I am swamped by the too many activities I am involved in these days can be gauged by things like the following: I get to know about important new physics results coming from an experiment I am part of by... private communications from amateur ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2011 - 1:21pm

This Really Surprises Me

WTF. A pleasant, unexpected surprise awaited me in the CMS Times, the online periodical which reports on the status of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the research activities, the people participating in the experiment. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 31 2011 - 6:54am

Do Matter And Antimatter Obey The Same Laws Of Physics?

The creation, trapping and storage of antihydrogen atoms for up to 1,000 seconds not only represents the longest time period so far that antihydrogen has been captured, but it also brings us closer to answering the question, do matter and antimatter obey t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2011 - 5:06pm

The Point On Higgs Searches

Summer conferences are just around the corner, and the LHC experiments are putting together O(1 fb) samples as we speak (in another post I will report on the progress of data collection at CMS, which has already collected over 650 inverse picobarns of usef ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2011 - 10:32am

Exchange with the Future King of Physics

The following is my email correspondence with Joy Christian. It shows how seriously he took my bait and how he quite agreed with my main point, namely that the “ Quantum Crackpot Randi Challenge ” should be earnestly attempted. ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 1 2011 - 10:45pm

Quantum Randi Challenge: Help Perimeter Physicist Joy Christian To Collect The Nobel Prize

You know the James Randi Challenge right? James offers $1000000 to anyone that can demonstrate paranormal abilities under laboratory conditions. Well, today we have something big to announce: A very similar challenge (now officially on the archive here), ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 15 2013 - 9:52am

To Be Is To Be Measured (Part 2)

Last time I invited you to consider the following "game": Three "players" (Andy, Bob, and Charles) compete agains three "inter­roga­tors". Two things can happen: either all players are asked for the value of X, or one player ...

Article - Ulrich Mohrhoff - Jun 2 2011 - 1:38am

Young’s experiment, new revised

If a particle satisfies the minimum mandated by the uncertainty relation and is subject to no force, the fuzziness of its momentum causes the fuzziness of its position to increase, while the fuzziness of its momentum remains the same. So the amount of inf ...

Blog Post - Ulrich Mohrhoff - Jun 4 2011 - 9:22pm

Another Betting Offer

I see people around very, very interested in what the CDF experiment has recently unearthed. I am talking, of course, of the jet-jet resonance candidate that they observe in their W+jets sample. A recent update of the previous result shows that the signifi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2011 - 8:59am

Constructing Consistent Linear Field Equations for Gravity

There are linear field equations of gravity called gravitomagnetism. It starts from the best starting place we have, general relativity. At the end of my talk last year at the 13th Eastern Gravity Meeting in Raleigh, someone asked me to compare gravitomage ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jun 18 2011 - 10:23pm