Physics

100 Scientific Papers By CMS- And Counting

I am happy to read from a message by our publication board chair that CMS has reached the important goal of publishing 100 scientific papers. The majority of these are analyses of collision data (75); 24 more are from studies performed on the three billion ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 3 2011 - 7:52am

Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox Resolved By Local Modal Realism

The Many Worlds Wiener Sausage is a very simple model that shows how apparent non-locality in the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox can arise. It can be understood by advanced high school students. But we saw that although it is a many-worlds model, ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 12:19am

Justifying The Love For The Strong Equivalence Principle

The strong equivalence principle is a stately beauty queen of an idea. In the simplest of dresses, she refuses to dance with any theory except general relativity. The mundane reason for mass is beyond her concern. My call own effort at unifying the symmet ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Aug 12 2011 - 11:35pm

Work Overload- A Personal Account

Warning: this post contains no physics whatsoever, although some of you might still be interested in reading it... Relaxing in the hideaway of Elafonisos (see picture on the left) I am led to take a detached look at my work activities, and to try and dete ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 9 2011 - 10:12am

Why Einstein Could Not Solve The EPR Paradox Though He Could Have

Usually, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox is presented as if it potentially conflicts with the theory of relativity. This is because the correlation between Alice’s and Bob’s measurements seems to travel with superluminal speeds in one real world. The ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 9:37am

A New Z-Prime Search From CMS

Apologizing with those of you who feel they have had too little particle physics this week, I am reporting today after a longish pause on a new search performed by the CMS experiment, one which has some interesting features, at least to me. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 14 2011 - 10:06am

Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment Up And Running

Twin detectors recently installed in the first of three experimental halls in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment are now recording interactions of elementary antineutrinos produced by powerful reactors at the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group powe ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2011 - 11:09am

Visualizing Quantum Interference

Quantum interference is really, really, really well-supported by data, data, data. Visualizing quantum interference is a blank slate. This may be a root source of frustration with any world view based on quantum mechanics. More of our brains are devoted to ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Aug 19 2011 - 12:09pm

Internet Study Guide To Nonlocal Quantum Physics And Solution To Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox

The proof against local realism is humankind’s the most relevant finding in the realm of science and philosophy; there is no excuse to be ignorant about it while pretending to be interested and knowledgeable about cool science and its implications for phi ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 12:24am

Ultimate explanation of renormalizations

Theoretical Physics- it is cool. Especially elementary particle physics. Especially Quantum Field Theory. It uses renormalizations of constants, which is out of comprehension to most layman people. You know why? Because theorists first write their Lagrangi ...

Blog Post - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Jan 24 2013 - 2:19pm