Physics

News Of The Demise Of The Standard Model Were Exaggerated

Each man kills the thing he loves, sang Jeanne Moreau in a beautiful song some thirty years ago. But the sentence is actually a quote from Oscar Wilde- aren't all smart quotes from that amazing writer? Anyway, in some way this rather startling concept ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2024 - 11:47am

Conferences And Concerts

I remember having been flamed, a long time ago, when in this column I ventured to claim that there was an inflation of physics conferences and workshops around, which to me looked both counter-productive (if there are too many such events, they become a di ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 28 2024 - 7:41am

Antimatter Over Eurasia

Last week I traveled from Venice to Tokyo through Zurich, and during the flights I could do some more tests of the RadiaCode 103- the nice spectrometer for gamma radiation I have been playing with as of late (for a couple of earlier posts and tests see her ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2024 - 5:53am

Proposal: Call Skoton The Dark Photon

I am presently in Cairns, sitting in a parallel session of the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, where I am convening a session on Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century, giving a talk on the optimizatio ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 19 2024 - 11:54am

Has Quark-Gluon Plasma Been Observed Yet?

I will start this brief post with a disclaimer- I am not a nuclear physicist (rather, I am a lesser being, a sub-nuclear physicist). Jokes aside, my understanding and knowledge of the dynamics of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and the phases of mat ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2024 - 8:55am

A New Theory of Everything That Sets Scalars Equal To Tensors Looks Like Nonsense.

I f your theory of everything has tensors set equal to scalars then it is wrong. Simply put, a scalar is a single number that is widely recognized. A vector consists of 3-4 numbers arranged in a specific sequence, typically representing coordinates and ti ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 9 2024 - 6:28pm

A New Gamma Ray Observatory In Northern Chile

The SWGO Collaboration (SWGO stands for Southern Wide-Field Gamma Observatory) met this week in Heidelberg, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) to discuss progress in the many activities that its members are carrying forward to pr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 19 2024 - 7:04am

Optimization In Valencia

Last week I was in Valencia, to attend the fourth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design. It was a great meeting, with 80 participants eager to discuss their latest results in application of complex deep neural network models and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 28 2024 - 5:24am

Standard Model Stands? New Measurement Of The W Mass At The LHC

Theories in physics come and go, some are popular yet entirely speculative and fade away quickly, like String Theory, and Superdeterminism, while others continue to provide hope for a framework that can unify gravity at the very large and very small levels ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2024 - 9:24am

Establishing Benchmarks For Use Of AI In Fundamental Science: Two Proposals To Move Forward

These days I am in the middle of a collaborative effort to write a roadmap for the organization of infrastructures and methods for applications of Artificial Intelligence in fundamental science research. In so doing I wrote a paragraph concerning benchmar ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2024 - 7:37am