Physics

The CDF Collaboration has recently produced a new analysis of proton-antiproton collisions at the now second-world-best collision energy of 1.96 TeV. They searched for very rare decays of the B…

This article is about physics but it fits under random thoughts also. My writing here on Scientific Blogging is self-educational, about what I am wondering and learning about. Today, it's multiverse…

    Fundamental Theoretical Physics contains sequences of theories, each of which is explained by previous ones by rules of the classical logic. For example, optics is absorbed by the…

As if taken by a spell, my joking claim to be on strike in the last post grew to become one of the longest streaks of absence from blogging of the last few months, for a series of irrelevant reasons…

Brad DeLong picks up on some nonsense in Businessweek: Kevin "Dow 36000" Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute calls for the USAF to bomb both France and Switzerland, hoping to get the…

  What is Space?    A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics           By: David Cox…

Shoot. Today I am on strike. This morning I decided to post here an article describing the details of a new result just approved by the CMS collaboration, the observation of a nice signal of phi…

Three weeks of speculations have come to an end. Since this morning Verlinde's paper is available on arXiv.I encourage you to give it a try. The article is well written and the math is limited to…

Today's visit to the Cornell Arxiv, the repository where scientific papers on physics, astrophysics, mathematics, and a few other disciplines are made publically accessible before getting published…

Being capable of asking the right question is a crucial skill. Dick Feynman tells a story in his book, "Surely you're joking, mr. Feynman": at a meeting with a bunch of military big shots he is shown…