Physics

Snarky Puzzle Answers 4

June 28- Shoot It in the Head Snarky puzzle. If you go down in a gravity field, time ticks slower, rulers look longer to someone else. That is 2 changes. Newton’s scalar theory accounts for just one, duh. Write a 4-potential that could account for both g ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 29 2011 - 7:47am

Empirical Probability Versus Classical Fair Meta-Randomness

Lets gamble; participating costs you only 50 cents per game. The odds are in your favor! Two out of three times, you win and get a dollar. So we start playing, and it seems as if we walk along time, every game we get to a point in the road where it splits ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 12:45am

New SUSY Fits Post-1/fb LHC Data!

While experimentalists gathered in Grenoble present the latest results on High-Energy Physics searches and measurements, phenomenologists like Sven Heinemeyer are working 24/7 to update the picture of the breathing space left for Supersymmetry, in the ligh ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 30 2011 - 11:58pm

LHCb Versus CDF: Two Punches In The Face!

As a 20-year-long (ok well, 19) member of the CDF collaboration, I am very proud of this wonderful experiments' accomplishments in all areas of high-energy physics, from exotic searches to Higgs searches, from top quark measurements to b-physics measu ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 29 2011 - 12:40am

Heads up: fun video on matter, dark matter, and dark energy

Dark Matters from PHD Comics on Vimeo. Sounds like they had a few physics grad students + Jorge Cham. A good and entertaining review of these major players on the cosmological stage. Note: dark energy is mentioned but not explored. ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 30 2011 - 12:52am

Why dark matter does not emit photon? My answer!

Why dark matter does not emit photon? We are now living in the era of new revolution. Are we again treading on the process of huge revolution that occurred in the late 19th century and the early 20th century? The current observation of dark matter require ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Jul 30 2011 - 10:30am

Shot in the Head

My work on gravity received a fatal blow in the Spring of 2007. A patient, creative exploration in the neighborhood of a deep truth might find an alternative expression to dodge the bullet that killed my math haiku. This blog tells the story. The cranial t ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Aug 4 2011 - 12:39am

The Plot Of The Week- ATLAS Test Of The CDF Dijet Mass Bump

Do you remember the dijet mass bump found by CDF in W plus jets events? That signal, whose significance exceeded four standard deviations, had everybody around go crazy for a while. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 2 2011 - 9:30am

Heads up: Dennis Overbye at the NYTimes on the Higgs

"Particle Accelerators Full of Spin and Fury, Signifying Something " Standard stuff written well. I particularly liked the end: ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Aug 2 2011 - 10:21am

Higgs or No Higgs? A Fortunate Analogy

I like to think at this blog as a place where both full outsiders and highly knowledgeable insiders coexist and exchange information. I know I often err on the side of producing posts which are unintelligible to most outsiders, but at least you have to ack ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 3 2011 - 7:36am