Physics

The "exceptionally simple theory of everything," proposed by physicist Antony Garrett Lisi in 2007 does not hold water, according to a particle physicist and mathematician writing in Communications…

Two and a half months since Erik Verlinde submitted his entropic gravity paper, and all of physics and cosmology has turned into entropy. Well, I am exaggerating a bit, and perhaps more than just a…

Quantum mechanics has been around for a hundred years and continues to fascinate and astonish scientists. It has been phenomenally successful at explaining the microscopic universe at the level of…

The number in the title, interpreted in units per square centimeters per second, is a flux rate, and it is a new world record set by the Tevatron collider last night on the number of protons and…

By changing the material medium through which x-rays pass, physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used laser light to control x-ray beams. As a new generation of powerful light…

It makes me very happy when I see new precise results on the mass of the top quark being produced by the CDF collaboration (to which I still proudly belong). CDF, one of the two hadron collider…

The American Chemical Society's Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition includes numerous research findings in the field of cold fusion, also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Here is…

Blocking Temperature 1. Superparamagnetism For ferromagnetic or ferromagnetic materials, with small enough nanoparticles their magnetization becomes thermally fluctuated. When the time between two…

The very term 'cold fusion' will send shudders through those who know even part of this sad story. In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room…

Quasicrysstals What is quasicrystal? I have it in mind that quasicrystal is the crystal with 5-fold symmetry, from the course of crystallography. It is well know that according to translational…