Physics

In The Beginning...

In The Beginning...

1:1 In the beginning Newton declared space and time. 1:2 And space was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 1:3 And Newton said, Let there be force: and there was force…
The Mysterious Y(4140)

The Mysterious Y(4140)

Quite some time ago I discussed here the tentative Y(4140) resonance  claimed by the CDF collaboration in their Run II data. This was a peak which was found in B-decay data containing a J/Psi…
A never ending story

A never ending story

The history of the cosmos. In quaternionic physics one equation plays a major role. It is a mixture of a differential equation, a continuity equation and a coupling equation.Φ = ∇ ψ = m φHere Φ, ψ…
On The CMS Higgs Video, Bias And Variance

On The CMS Higgs Video, Bias And Variance

Nowadays whenever I set out to write about CMS I turn on a self-censorship co-processor in the back of my mind, one which is instructed to check that all the sentences I write are completely free…
Tevatron Higgs Sensitivity: Did We Lie In 1999?

Tevatron Higgs Sensitivity: Did We Lie In 1999?

Today the arxiv features the paper describing the final word by the CDF experiment on its searches for the standard model Higgs boson. This paper supersedes previous ones describing searches…