Physics

Telepathy And The Quantum

Telepathy And The Quantum

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize soon be awarded? The prize, administered by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), is offered to anyone who can prove in scientifically controlled…
Telepathy And The Quantum

Telepathy And The Quantum

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize[http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html] soon beawarded? The prize, administered by the James RandiEducational Foundation (JREF), is offered…
The Say of the Week: Lederman's Shoulder

The Say of the Week: Lederman's Shoulder

"The yield of muon pairs decreased rapidly from 1 GeV to the kinematic limit of nearly 6 GeV with the exception of a curious shoulder near 3GeV. The measurement of muons was by range as determined by…
Learn To Compute Higgs Limits On The Fly

Learn To Compute Higgs Limits On The Fly

I am presently into the second week of my lessons of Subnuclear Physics for the 2nd year of specialization in Physics, and I have just finished a lesson discussing the current searches for the Higgs…
The Promise Of A Muon Collider

The Promise Of A Muon Collider

Based upon some recent statements by the DOE, the commitment to building a muon collider in this country may be more tangible: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/its-on-god-part.…
A Week's Worth Of Science: Four Papers To Browse

A Week's Worth Of Science: Four Papers To Browse

A Sunday morning browsing through preprints recently posted in the Cornell Arxiv revealed interesting reading material. If you have a couple of hours to kill next week, why not having a look at the…
Plot Of The Week - The Upsilon Puzzle

Plot Of The Week - The Upsilon Puzzle

My statistics page depressingly shows that a large fraction of readers who visit this site do so for an average of 30 seconds. Maybe they were looking for something different, or maybe they do not…