Physics

Accelerating universe attracts Nobel.

Wow, those folks in Stockholm do pay attention to this blog. With a delay of a year (ok, you are forgiven, graphene is cute stuff after all), one half of the ten million kronor goes to SAUL PERLMUTTER and the other half jointly to BRIAN SCHMIDT and ADAM RI ...

Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Oct 4 2011 - 11:31pm

On Wearing Two Hats- Your Input Appreciated

One of the issues that emerged in the discussion of whether researchers should be bloggers is the fact that it is always dangerous to wear multiple "hats", i.e. carrying multiple responsibilities which may sometimes come in conflict with one anot ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 6 2011 - 4:41am

Tamburini: Neutrinos Are Majorana Particles, Relativity Is OK

Fabrizio Tamburini (left) is an old friend- I have known him since 1976, when we both used to attend the gatherings of the newborn Associazione Astrofili Veneziani, at the Lido of Venice. The love for astronomy had brought us together, but we took differe ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 10 2011 - 7:25am

RETRACTION: Deriving The Unified GEM Field Equations (5/5)

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 - 12:41am

The Say Of The Week- What Is The Higgs And Why Do We Need It

"We consider the scattering of charged W bosons [...] the sum of all diagrams still diverges as s/Mw^2. Heavy leptons cannot help us, so the only solution is to introduce a scalar particle which cancels these residual divergences [...] Here, h is jus ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 11 2011 - 5:14am

Scepticism On The Opera Result: Protecting The Establishment?

I read with interest and some amusement (on the mouse joke) the piece written here by Sascha Vongehr. I find his arguments wrong and decided to answer him in the comments thread of his post, but my answer got a bit too long and I did not want to hijack a n ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 11 2011 - 7:22am

Important Reporting on the Dark Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy

Gravity is the force conquering the structure of the universe. By recognizing the components of the universe, we are estimating the quantity of components composing the universe through size of gravity and gravitational potential energy (GPE).  In this pap ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Oct 12 2011 - 9:01am

Refusal Of Neutrino Results Supports Global Warming Denial As Predicted

While people are busy with their own knee-jerk reactions trying to stifle my criticizing the scientific community, the Wall Street Journal did what was predicted by that very criticism, namely turning the way that the scientific community deals with the f ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 20 2011 - 1:50am

The Plot Of The Week- The 327 GeV ZZ Anomaly

Higgs boson hunters often catch themselves dreaming of the boson having a mass high enough to give rise to the spectacular decay into two Z bosons, and then four charged leptons in the final state. At a hadron collider-let's talk of the LHC to be spec ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 14 2011 - 1:02pm

Sixth Snarky Puzzle Answers

The sixth Snarky Puzzle Answers leads off with the story of a minor controversy. [Click or skip this video reading on YouTube.]  Two related Snarky Puzzles September 20, "Deriving the Maxwell Source Equations Using Quaternions (2/5) " ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Oct 19 2011 - 12:04pm