Physics

Scientists at CERN are WRONG about faster than light particles, or they are being misrepresented

The postulate of special relativity, which in common terms means that no particle can travel faster than the speed of light, has been tested and shown to be correct in literally billions of measurements.  So the scientists at CERN who report measuring neut ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 25 2012 - 10:51am

One Way Light Velocity Toward Gran Sasso

The people with the atom smashers, especially the ones at OPERA (Oscillation Project with E-tR Apparatus) in Italy’s Gran Sasso, announced to likely have a whopping 60 nano second systematic error with some neutrino experiments, but it makes for much bett ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 9 2012 - 10:12am

What's Wrong With Those Neutrinos?

Do you believe neutrinos can exceed the universal speed limit of 299792.458 km/s? Be careful before you respond with "yes". Rumor has it that the set of all people who believe superluminal speeds have indeed been observed in the OPERA experiment ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 24 2011 - 10:00am

TEDx, the Higgs, and Whiskey

Yesterday's event at TEDx in Antwerp, in the gorgeous Flemish Opera, was followed by an enthusiastic audience of 1000. I spoke in the afternoon and tried to explain what it is that we do at CERN with these protons and the complicated machines we use. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 25 2011 - 5:24am

Neutrinos CAN Go Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity

Just about two days ago I warned that there will be a lot of nonsense about relativity coming out these days, and promptly there are already three articles here on Science2.0 alone that are exactly what I feared: Physicists with only basic knowledge about ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 9 2011 - 10:07pm

Video of my talk at TEDx Flanders

The TEDx crew has been quite fast to make available on youtube the video of the presentation I gave together with Peter Woit in Antwerp yesterday. You can give a look at it here. Unfortunately the slides are not simultaneously available, but I will fix tha ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 25 2011 - 1:10pm

Script Of The TEDx Talk

The organizers of TEDx Flanders did produce in a very timely manner very professional videos of the event, so you can follow offline the talks, including mine. However, what I said is not exactly what I had planned to say. Further, you might not want to sp ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2011 - 7:31pm

Deriving the Maxwell Homogeneous Equations Using Quaternions (3/5)

Nature abhors a magnetic monopole, although she adores gravitational and electric monopoles. The homogeneous Maxwell equations are the ones that need no currents, known as the no magnetic monopoles and Faraday's laws. There are three ways to derive th ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Oct 1 2011 - 10:56am

Faster Than Light Neutrinos Do Not Time Travel To Spoil Your Date

The article Neutrinos CAN go Faster than Light has triggered large interest and is at present widely discussed, for example here and here on my favorite (for variety and reliability) German science column Here There Be Dragons and somewhat ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 3 2011 - 4:50am

The Tevatron Shuts Down, Long Live The Tevatron!

Tomorrow is the last day on duty. For twenty-six years the Tevatron collider, the four-mile-long accelerator of the Fermi laboratory in Batavia (IL), has provided the CDF and DZERO experiments with proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 and then 1.96 Tera-el ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 29 2011 - 6:43pm