Physics

God Particle Versus Fundamental Physics And Sexy Girl Bands

Ask around what fundamental physics is, where the cutting edge of profound, foundational science is investigated, and you will most likely hear the Large Hadron Collider being mentioned, also referred to as Large Hype Constructor (LHC), which tries to fin ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 13 2011 - 8:28am

A most elegant explanation for Dark Matter's unexpected elusiveness

Dark matter has proven harder to find than anyone anticipated in earth bound experiments, furthermore astronomical observations have revealed how it is spread through the universe.  How can these null results be explained?  ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 17 2011 - 2:36pm

CDF: Four Decades Of Stretching The SM

The Collider Detector at Fermilab, CDF for insiders, is the longest lasting physics experiment ever (yes, I know about the pitch drop and no, I do not consider that a physics experiment). Designed in 1979, it was assembled in the early eighties, and operat ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 19 2011 - 3:43am

A Six-Sigma Signal Of Superluminal Neutrinos From Opera!

[Introduction: I published the text below last Monday, when the news of this controversial new measurement had spread in the corridors of physics departments, as well as in the threads of popular HEP blogs. I felt I was not doing anything wrong, since all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 24 2011 - 6:20pm

Deriving the Maxwell Source Equations Using Quaternions (2/5)

The Maxwell source equations will be derived using quaternions- an approach James Clerk Maxwell himself tried and yet failed to do. As far as I am aware, this technique is not in the literature, up to an isomorphism (meaning actually it is there but under ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Sep 22 2011 - 10:38pm

The Rumsfeld Principle, Mikado Sticks, And How Not To Get The Girl

Last time I blogged, I discussed entropic gravity and ended with the prediction that we will witness some more opposing and supportive views on entropic gravity before the dust will settle on the subject. The moment I wrote these words, a critical article ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 20 2011 - 10:47am

The Plot Of The Week- Single Top Loud And Clear

A well-known HEP rule says that yesterday's searched new processes will be tomorrow's annoying irreducible backgrounds; but since I am an optimist, I always see the glass half-full and feel compelled to add that today they are pleasing high-stati ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 20 2011 - 10:34am

Can The Higgs Boson And Scale Invariance Explain The Big Bang?

Researchers at  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne are hoping the Higgs boson is found at the LHC for a big reason- they think it can explain universal expansion and even reveal the possible existence of another closely related particle. The Higgs b ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2011 - 12:23pm

The Say Of The Week- Excluding The Higgs

"Excluding wrong Higgs boson mass hypotheses is starting to feel like explaining how to make the chocolate mousse by compiling a list of all the wrong ingredients." T. D., TEDx Flanders, Sept. 24th 2011 ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 22 2011 - 8:57am

New Results From Opera Due Tomorrow

So, as I had announced a bit prematurely three days ago, the Opera experiment is about to release the results of a measurement that is bound to stir endless discussions. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 24 2011 - 10:00am