Physics

Classical Parallel Worlds And Local Non-Locality

The Many Worlds Wiener Sausage is the first step in understanding the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. However, there are still three steps missing until we can resolve the EPR paradox correctly. One important step: Although it is a many-worlds mode ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 1:01am

Julian Barbour Versus Minkowski And Me

Julian Barbour is an independent theoretical physicist who has gained some attention of late. Minkowski is dead. From my soapbox here, I will channel Minkowski in this gentlemen’s disagreement. Links to Julian’s work will be provided, they are worthy of y ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jul 25 2011 - 11:19pm

First Dimuon Decays Of B_s Mesons Observed By CDF?

I was waiting for the announcement in the Fermilab seminar of next Friday, but apparently despite I am still a member I am not well enough informed of what happens inside CDF, the experiment at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider of Fermilab. So the pa ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 13 2011 - 5:06pm

Why Quantum Statistics?

Consider the following scenario. An initial measurement indicates that two indistinguishable particles – particles of the same type, carrying no kind of identity tag – are headed northward and southward, respectively. The next (relevant) thing that is indi ...

Article - Ulrich Mohrhoff - Jul 15 2011 - 5:34pm

Diakopes

In the beautiful hideout of Falassarna, Crete (see below), I am blogging today from the terrace of my hotel room, overlooking a wonderful beach. Although still "connected" and in touch with the happenings at CERN and Fermilab, I am for once in a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 16 2011 - 12:05pm

Locust Swarms And Twitter

Twitter and Facebook have been studied extensively and have provided some insights into the formation and maintenance of human social networks. But could this approach be adapted to gain understanding of swarming behavior in animals, say, locusts? ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 17 2011 - 10:46pm

CMS Sees No Gluinos- But Will Keep Looking

Blogging from the whereabouts of one of the most beautiful places of the Mediterranean, Balos Beach (see picture), I wish to draw your attention today to one fun search that CMS produced on data collected in 2010: the one for gluinos in events with six je ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 18 2011 - 10:54am

Sex And Unified Field Theory R&D

The title is not a tease but is an exercise in abstraction. I spend most of my free mind time thinking about one or the other of these two subjects. Can I find any overlap in the research going on in these two? That was the challenge. I hope you don’t mind ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Jul 23 2011 - 4:38pm

Should We Trust Experts?

In Science Could Have It all Wrong, Ethan comes to the conclusion that we should all trust the experts. The most controversial bit is surely where he takes the impressive successes of modern cosmology to be a good reason to trust experts on topics like gl ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 20 2011 - 9:53am

Guess The Plot 6

Today I casually ran into a very nice figure which is perfect for an entry as "guess the plot", both because of its mysterious appearance, and because of the interesting physics it hides. It is a two-dimensional "surface" and its shape ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 19 2011 - 5:20pm