Acknowledged!
This is just to report that I feel greatly honoured to be cited on top of the acknowledgements section of the new paper by Dimitri Nanopoulos and colleagues.
I hope I will be able to review the…
CMS Vs ATLAS On Dijet Resonances: Who Wins ?
Two papers describing results of searches for high-mass resonances decaying into jet pairs have appeared on the arxiv this week. They are authored by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations, and they both…
Finally, Schrodinger's Cat Hits A Nobel!
Well, kind of. David Wineland and Serge Haroche have not endangered any living beings. That is to say: probably not in their physics experiments.
Yet, although they stayed at a safe distance…
Naturalness Explained With The Roulette
Five years ago I was fascinated by an analogy used by my friend Michelangelo Mangano to explain the problem of naturalness, a crucial issue in fundamental physics, and maybe the biggest single…
The Simpsons: cartoon black hole physics vs real black hole physics.
Things everyone should know about real black holes in comparison to fictional black holes. Most importantly they don't suck things into them.
Black holes do not …
Significance In Presence Of Systematics, And The LHCb Observation Of Bs Decays To Pion Pairs
In particle physics searches (and elsewhere) the word "significance" is associated with the quantitative measure of how discrepant is one observation with a so-called "null hypothesis". That is, one…
Ziggs, QPAD’s, curvature and inertia
Recently Leonard Susskind introduced a new type of objects and called them ziggs.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY
Ziggs are supposed to form a condensate. Massive particles emit…
Do you recycle your texts ?
As my twenty three affectionate readers will probably remember, I enjoyed a very pleasant week in Kolymbari (Crete) last June, attending the first International Conference of Frontier Physics. Now,…
Dark Energy via a fifth force on neutrinos.
Dark energy is the biggest mystery in modern cosmology. When observations of distinct supernova finally got good enough to observe the change in the rate of the expansion of the universe, Everyone…
Almost Open Criticism Of Nano Physics In Established Journal
Science writers eagerly disseminate falsehoods about the peer-review system, for example that critiques are published in the same journal as the criticized article. In truth, critical papers are…
