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Light - The Ultimate Measure That Isn’t

... turn all this upside down, i.e. do we have to accept the polarization of a photon as its internal property? Or in other words again:does ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 24 2011 - 7:46pm - 0 attachments

Of Quantum Non-Locality And Green Cheese Moons In Many Worlds

... you know from playing with polarized sunglasses that polarization filters act on the light’s electromagnetic vectors, thus they ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 8 2012 - 9:49am - 0 attachments

Metamolecules And Light-Speed Chirality

... enabled this chirality flipping and the circular polarization of THz light to be dynamically controlled. Scanning ... of chiral metamolecules and control the circular polarization of THz light could be used to detect toxic and explosive ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2012 - 6:30am - 0 attachments

Synchrotron radiation

... from 10 -11 to 10 -8 s. High polarization: the light emitted from the reflected magnet is high polarized and different polarization states can be obtained by controlling the insertion devices. ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Apr 15 2010 - 11:03am - 0 attachments

There shouldn't be a massive Higgs Boson

Consistent with the Standard Model of particle physics, there is postulated a Higgs field which determines those particles which are massive and those which are not. Photons are massless. Gluons also are thought to be massless, but they are not free pa ...

Blog Post - John Michael Will... - Jun 27 2010 - 6:10pm - 0 attachments

The Semi-Elusive Fatalism Gene In Biologists

A review of Dr Lonnie W Aarssen's “Some Bold evolutionary predictions for mating in humans” Quite often papers are published which get slated for being “politically incorrect” I recently witnessed a rather interesting example of that. However when readi ...

Article - Sophia Siedlberg - Sep 25 2007 - 1:56pm - 0 attachments

2012 Wolf Prize In Physics

Those working on quantum gravity have to accept the fact they are unlikely to ever compete for a Nobel in physics. No matter how brilliant and how widely accepted the contribution, a Nobel prize in physics is not awarded as long as the work has not been v ...

Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Feb 16 2012 - 3:42am - 0 attachments

Alejandro Rivero: Fermion Mass Coincidences And Other Fun Ideas

The text below was graciously written for this blog by Alejandro Rivero (below),  a friend who has contributed to this blog other times in the past. His theoretical ideas are off the mainstream, but in a way which makes them interesting to me. I ho ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 7 2011 - 4:35am - 0 attachments

Proposal: Two-Tiered Education Of 'Super League' Universities And Everyone Else

... in a  PA Consulting Group survey predict a dramatic polarization of the higher education system. They predict the emergence of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2012 - 11:06pm - 0 attachments

Partisanship, Simplicity-Seeking, And Maladaptation

... Worried about our country’s current political polarization, I had already been reading and thinking about the psychology of ... as it appears so far again to be characterized by extreme polarization and name-calling, I believe putting partisan psychology (and, as ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 27 2011 - 6:44pm - 0 attachments