Physics

NEW THEORIES OF COSMOLOGY for OPEN DISCUSSION      History of the science always showed that the science is like a mirage. People will think that science has reached to an…

I know that some of the visitors of this blog are surprised to find personal stuff in my column every now and then. However, a blog is an online diary, and I do leave here my personal thoughts if I…

The old discussion about how an airplane, that is many tons of steel, can keep staying supported in mere air, is a perfect example for how discussions way too often polarize into two camps with both…

In his book "Everything's Relative - And Other Fables From Science And Technology" Tony Rothman writes:  "[The term] 'special relativity' is probably the greatest misnomer in the history of…

Dynamics can be surprising at times, even when applied to well-understood and tested physical systems such as a basketball and a basket. Look what happened to a free shot executed by Kamyl Kawrzydek…

Betting a grand on the existence or not of new physics is cool, but one does not need to be that daring (or to be that daring every other day) to enjoy the game of making predictions for what the…

Some unforeseen Christmas-vigil blog activity bringing here a few visitors more than average was traced today back to BBC News, who discussed the 2010 science highlights here. The incoming link is…

A reader of this blog asked in the comments thread of a recent piece the following interesting question: "Assuming mH = 201 GeV/c2, how many Higgses shoud have been produced atthe Tevatron by now…

As sure as death and taxes, and as timely as a Swiss watch, the Tevatron collider never ceases to awe us. Well into its twentysixth year of life, the aged and celebrated proton-antiproton collider…

Ten years ago the trilobite molecule came into the Physics media, like Physics News, Physical Review focus etc. It reappeared about a year ago, in fact in Nature. I am planning to demonstrate here…