Physics

Expect Tachyonic Neutrinos To Have Their Higgs AND Smoke It

Although I went on record that the reportedly faster than light neutrinos from CERN to OPERA will likely go away as mere systematic error, and although my very own resolution of the EPR paradox rejects superluminal phenomena even in non-local quantum enta ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 30 2011 - 8:42pm

Nando Ferroni Is New INFN President

Not yet official, but safe enough to be announced here: prof. Fernando Ferroni is the new INFN president. The charge will need to be confirmed by the Minister of Instruction and Research, Mariastella Gelmini (yes, the lady who said neutrinos travel in a 73 ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2011 - 3:33am

Devotion To The Tevatron

I'm nostalgic tonight. The reason? The Tevatron has finally stopped running, for good. It's strange to find out one can mourn the shutdown of a synchrotron just as the passing away of an old friend, but that's more or less how I feel like to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 3 2011 - 11:06am

A Mandatory Link

Just a link you cannot miss: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/milestones/interactive-timeline.html ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2011 - 4:51pm

A Million Times The Speed Of Light

The reportedly faster than light neutrinos at OPERA may be a systematic error, but if these and those data of other neutrino experiments are correct, they hint at a phenomenon that propagates with very many times, perhaps millions of times the speed of lig ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 18 2011 - 10:17am

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)

X-ray is a form of electromagnetic wave with wavelength in range of 0.01~10 nm and energies in range of 0.12~120 keV, almost the same range for the core-level electron binding energy (0.1~100 keV).[1,2] Therefore, X-rays can be used to determine the electr ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Oct 3 2011 - 11:02am

Relativity... and beyond

Relativity is by itself a very cross-disciplinary subject. Not only from the point view of Physics, Mathematics, Astrophysics, Philosophy... but also from that of Ethics, History and other Social Sciences. For instance, why there has been no Nobel Prize aw ...

Blog Post - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - Oct 3 2011 - 12:57pm

RETRACTION: Deriving The Hypercomplex Gravity Field Equations (4/5)

RETRACTION: I have decided to retract three blogs (Deriving … 4/5, 5/5, 6/5+1). I was unable to figure out a reasonable statement concerning gauge symmetry. When the blogs were initially written, I focused on the field equations, mainly the Gauss-like law ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Nov 8 2011 - 12:44am

Physics Nobel Prize For Einstein’s Greatest Blunder

This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to Saul Perlmutter, who shares it with Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt, all having been vital in the discovery of that the universe’s expansion is speeding up; research that was done during the 1990s. Several scienc ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 4 2011 - 4:17pm

Should Researchers Blog? Should Their Employers Encourage Them?

Tomorrow I will fly to Frascati, where are the headquarters of INFN, the italian institute for nuclear physics. I will attend to an event there, called " Incontri di Fisica " (Physics meetings), where high-school teachers meet researchers and rec ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2011 - 6:44am