- The super-tiny objects that are really fundamental
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... for describing warps because it enables the attachment of polarization to warp strings. ...
Blog Post - Johannes van Leunen - Aug 1 2017 - 5:42am - 0 attachments
- Guest Post: Jacques Distler, Why I Lost $750 On New Physics At The LHC
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Jacques Distler is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a distinguished theorist, as well as a physics blogger. Along with experimentalist Gordon Watts (who covered $250) he took my $1000 bet that the LHC would not discover n ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 15 2017 - 7:19pm - 0 attachments
- Affirmative Action Or Racist Regression: Help Lisa Fight Donald Trump
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... That is a good point. The blue line does not hide the polarization into the one-percenters versus the sorry rest. The steepness of ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 14 2017 - 3:02am - 0 attachments
- Where Should we Send our Rovers to Mars to Unravel Mystery of Origin of First Living Cells?
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... solar nebula, have this excess. One theory involves polarization of light in nebulae in star formation regions. One way this could ... by a magnetic field. For more about this see Circular Polarization and the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality This is ...
Blog Post - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 10:39am - 0 attachments
- Is Dark Matter A Very Light Boson ? Witten Says It Might
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The mystery of what clumps galaxy clusters together, and provides for a quarter of the matter-energy budget of the universe, really looks like _the_ most important scientific question we face today. There is nowadays compelling evidence of the correctness ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 2 2016 - 9:29pm - 0 attachments
- Stereotypes Skew Our Predictions Of Others' Pains And Pleasures
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... may shed light on increasing political and economic polarization: "While we haven't explicitly shown a connection between polarization and our effect, it is possible that our observed effect here has a ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2016 - 10:04am - 0 attachments
- Migrating Birds Speed Up In Spring
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... government radar stations. "In 2013 an additional plane of polarization was added to the radars, giving us another dimension to look at ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2016 - 9:52am - 0 attachments
- Quantum Entanglement : has there really been an unambiguous experimental basis? - troubled non-physicist
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I been having bad dreams (a little exaggeration) on trying to contemplate if the arguments stated in EPR paper may have been correct. It is not clear to me whether Bell really did disprove the hidden variables theory. Is the reality of Quantum Entangleme ...
Blog Post - Johann Cruz - Aug 14 2016 - 9:29pm - 0 attachments
- Researchers Devise New Tool To Measure Polarization Of Light
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... have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light, rather ... of organic polymers, rather than traditional silicon, for polarization detection and measurement. Light consists of an electric ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2016 - 5:58am - 0 attachments
- Spinning Electrons Yield Positrons For Research
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... and a positron. If the electron beam is polarized, the polarization can be passed on to the new electrons and positrons. Credit: DOE's ... of positrons and electrons. Throughout the process, the polarization of the original electron beam is passed along. The researchers use ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2016 - 10:21am - 0 attachments