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Forget The 47 Percent On Each Side, Swing Voters Hold More Sway Over Candidates

... appealed to swing voters. A new paper says that polarization on cultural issues, like tolerance for gay marriage or spying by ... "Many pundits and academics have argued that political polarization, particularly on social and cultural issues, has increased in the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 1:49pm - 0 attachments

Primordial Gravitational Waves - BICEP Experiment May Confirm Inflationary Theory?

BICEP, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, is an experiment that used almost 100 detectors to scan the sky ... resolutions of 1.0° and 0.7°) in order to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). From their location ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2014 - 1:07pm - 0 attachments

Not Charge Or Spin: Shaken Will Mean Less Data Loss In Future Computers

... be reversed to manipulate magnets by the current-induced polarization. These new phenomena are a major topic of research today since ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2014 - 3:12pm - 0 attachments

More Confirmations On Y(4140) And Y(4270) From BaBar

The Y(4140) state, a resonance found in decays of the B meson to J/ψ φ K final states, is the protagonist of a long saga. Originally it was obseved by CDF in 4 inverse femtobarns of Run 2 data by Kai Yi, a very active "bump hunter" in the experiment - and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 24 2014 - 1:06pm - 0 attachments

Particle Physics For High School Students

Yesterday I visited a high school in Treviso, a small centre in north-west Italy. The students of the last two years participate in a program called "masterclasses" which includes lessons on particle physics and astrophysics and a visit to the department ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 15 2014 - 9:59am - 0 attachments

Now We Can See If That Cat Is Alive Or Dead: Peeking Inside Schrodinger's Box

... that direct measurement could be applied to measure the polarization states of light. The new paper is the first time this method has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2014 - 1:34pm - 0 attachments

Predictions! The physics and astronomy stories to watch for in 2014.

Predictions for 2014: No firm direct detection of dark matter, a better understanding of the Higgs boson, an announcement that Fermilab will live with a muon and neutrino related program, and a surprising and troubling reception for Neil DeGrasse Tysons ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 1 2014 - 3:11pm - 0 attachments

Canadian Native Reservations Lead To 'Social Evil', Say Scholars

... northern Ontario. In this reserve, a significant internal polarization has been generated, where serious problems for most people coexist ... Inuit and descendants of both Indians and fur traders. The polarization occurs because - as the authors sarcastically state - “the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2014 - 5:30am - 0 attachments

Many Worlds Sausage With Correct Quantum Factors

... That is where the worlds are which have Bob measuring the polarization B = 1. In the lower half of the sausage are all those worlds ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 13 2013 - 12:41pm - 0 attachments

Many World Interpretation By Splitting A Wiener Sausage

... That is where the worlds are that have Bob measuring the polarization B = 1. In the lower half of the sausage are all those worlds that ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 12:03am - 0 attachments