Physics

I think of myself as non-violent, a purple guy in the blue state of Massachusetts. When it comes to proposals in science though, I go for head shots. Nature doesn’t care if we keep repackaging bullshit. A well-fed bull does not run out of bullshit. To sto ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jun 30 2011 - 4:32pm

A New Blog Out There!

I am quite happy today to announce here that there is a new blog to visit, and to bookmark!, for those among you who are interested to know what does a PhD in physics do after he or she graduates. In particular, as is explained in the subtitle, the questio ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 28 2011 - 3:48pm

A simulation of Joy Christian's two hemispheres Bell experiment

A few years back I heard Joy Christian give a talk on his disproof of Bell's theorem, where he explained his idea for an experiment involving two hemispheres with a mass stuck on each. To me it seemed obvious that the first thing to do with such an id ...

Blog Post - Stephen Lee - Jul 2 2011 - 9:54am

To Be Is To Be Measured (III: Contextuality)

In their seminal paper of 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) put forward the following criterion, which they considered reasonable: If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the ...

Blog Post - Ulrich Mohrhoff - Jul 4 2011 - 2:19am

DZERO Charge Asymmetry Grows To 3.9 Standard Deviations

The DZERO collaboration has just produced an update of their analysis of the dimuon charge asymmetry using 9.0 inverse femtobarns of proton-antiproton collisions. The new result confirms the previously reported effect, raising the discrepancy with the Stan ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2011 - 12:02pm

Many Worlds Sausage With Correct Quantum Factors

Many Worlds by Splitting a Wiener Sausage is extremely simple as far as models go. Before we can resolve the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox with it however, we need to understand what is still wrong with it. It is “wrong” for a simple reason that I wrote ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 13 2013 - 12:41pm

The Certainty and Uncertainty Principles

The game of quantum mechanics is rigged, but I will let you in on the rules. The wave function has all the information usually written as complex values. Operators are used to grab out different values from the wave function. Once you agree to those ground ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 6 2011 - 7:35am

Quantum Randi Challenge Update

This just to report progress on the Quantum Randi Challenge. It has changed a lot, so please have a look to see whether you think it is now attractive enough for you to help “internetizing” it, which is still highly desired. The novelties: 1) The name cha ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 12 2011 - 6:27am

Guess The Plot 5

This instance of my "guess the plot" contest will be hopefully raising fewer controversies than the former one. You are asked to explain what the figure represents, possibly guessing the units on the x and y axes. More advanced readers may know a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 7 2011 - 4:03am

New CMS Constraints On SUSY

While other sources (voluntarily not linked here, to avoid pissing off my collaborators) choose to be "on the news" these days, with a brand new exclusion plot of the Higgs boson obtained using almost one full inverse femtobarn of collisions whic ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2011 - 3:05am