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(Phys.org) -- The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, associate professor of physics at UT Dallas, a $222,000 research grant for his investigations of the gravitational lensing technique used to study the nature of the universe.
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Quasars are thought to be galaxies whose bright nuclei contain massive black holes around which disks are actively accreting matter. The accretion process releases vast amounts of energy, often including a wind, and as a result quasars are among the most powerful energy sources known. Because they are so bright, quasars can be seen even when they are very far away, and this combination of being both highly energetic and located at cosmological distances makes them appealing to astronomers trying to figure out the nature of galactic center black holes (our own Milky Way has one) and the conditions in the early universe that prompt these monsters to form.
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Astronomers are puzzled why it appears that some of the most distant galaxies in the universe are more dense with stars than expected. In this image of the Milky Way star cluster Omega Centauri, bright stars have been coloured blue,...
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British scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy that reveals the detail of a billion stars. The iamge was built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile,...
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Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
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A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.
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Jorge Cham visits CERN, and comes back with tales of particles and mass.
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Plans for an enormous telescope, equipped with a 3.2 billion-pixel camera, are ready for detailed designs, its creators announced on April 24. When completed, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will take photos of every inch of visible night sky...
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Conference: 1 Jun 2012 - 2 Jun 2012, Pakistan. Organized by Dr. M. H. S. Bukhari.
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School: 14 Jun 2012 - 23 Jun 2012, Turunç, Marmaris, Turkey. Organized by Dr. Esen Ercan Alp (Argonne National Labs), USA.
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A flowchart I put together for The Particle at the End of the Universe. Feel free to spread around, with appropriate attribution. Sorry for the tiny writing, there are a lot of particles! Click to embiggen and get a legible version.
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Japanese astronomers Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, said Wednesday they had found a "protocluster of galaxies" 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered. The team peered back through time...
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A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a gaseous ring surrounding the supernova 1987A, which exploded on February 23, 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The image, taken with the European Space...
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Perched high atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the largest, fastest, most detailed pictures of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky. With these images, researchers around the world will seek to reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy—and to answer a host of other questions in [...]
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 Density growth in Kantowski-Sachs cosmologies with a cosmological constant Authors : Bradley , Michael Dunsby , Peter K.S . Forsberg , Mats Keresztes , Zoltán : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95023-95055(33 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract In this work , the growth of density perturbations in Kantowski-Sachs cosmologies with a
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Science keeps advancing, in fits and starts. It was a good week for intriguing results from experiments. The first bit of news, which has been the subject of the most internet buzz, is a new paper by Chilean astronomers C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, R. A. Mendez, and R. Smith, which claims that there’s no [...]
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The team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources.
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Ever wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.
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Scientific American is doing a good job this month of putting out stories related to quantum gravity that actually make sense, steering clear of the multiverse and other pseudo-science. This month’s magazine has a very nice article by Steven Carlip … Continue reading →
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. Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 The potential for very high-frequency gravitational wave detection Author : Cruise , . A.M : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95003-95014(12 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The science case for observing gravitational waves at frequencies in the millihertz-kilohertz range using LIGO , VIRGO , GEO600 or LISA is very strong and the
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. Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 Induced vacuum energy-momentum tensor in the background of a cosmic string Authors : Sitenko , Yu A . Vlasii , . N.D : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95002-95019(18 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract A massive scalar field is quantized in the background of a cosmic string which is generalized to a static flux-carrying codimension-2
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 The no-boundary measure in scalar-tensor gravity Authors : Hwang , Dong-il Sahlmann , Hanno Yeom , Dong-han : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95005-95027(23 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract In this paper , we study the no-boundary wavefunction in scalar-tensor gravity with various potentials for the non-minimally coupled scalar field
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 Fully explorable horned particles hiding charge Authors : Guendelman , E.I . Vasihoun , . M : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95004-95019(16 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The charge-hiding effect by a horned particle , which was studied for the case where the gravity gauge-field system is self-consistently interacting with a
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 Modified general relativity as a model for quantum gravitational collapse Authors : Kreienbuehl , Andreas Husain , Viqar Seahra , Sanjeev . S : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95008-95026(19 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We study a class of Hamiltonian deformations of the massless Einstein-Klein-Gordon system in spherical symmetry
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. Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 Bounds on M R for charged objects with positive cosmological constant Authors : Andréasson , Håkan Böhmer , Christian G . Mussa , Atifah : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95012-95021(10 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We consider charged spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a positive
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Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9 S-brane to thermal non-singular string cosmology Authors : Kounnas , Costas Partouche , Hervé Toumbas , Nicolaos : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, 7 May 2012 pp . 95014-95036(23 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 45.55 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We present a new class of non-singular string cosmologies in d spacetime dimensions . At very early times , τ τ c the Universe is described
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A standard topic in an introductory General Relativity (GR) course is the study of maximally symmetric solutions. These are flat (Minkowski) spacetime, de Sitter spacetime (obtained when the cosmological constant is positive) and Anti-de Sitter spacetime (when the cosmological constant is negative). While this last space has been of great interest in physics during the [...]
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Adrian Cho at Science magazine this week has an article about Craig Hogan’s project to build a “holometer” and somehow test the “holographic principle”. Since this promises some sort of experimental test of fashionable ideas about quantum gravity, it has … Continue reading →
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We’re a little bit late here, but I wanted to note that Chinese physicist Fang Lizhi died on Friday in Arizona at the age of 76. Fang’s research area was quantum cosmology, but he was most well-known for his political activism, fighting against repression in China. Originally a member of the Communist Party, he was [...]
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A merger of galaxy clusters about 5.2 billion light years from Earth.
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The world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact Linear Collider Study and the International Linear Collider, have traditionally been viewed as casual rivals–both in the running to be built as the future complement to CERN’s proton-smashing [...]
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The DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In December, scientists on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC announced that they had unearthed in their data a never-before-seen particle composed of two bottom quarks, called Chi-b (P3). The DZero collaboration [...]
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I’ve reached the cosmology part of my General Relativity (GR) course, and one of the early points that comes up is my traditional rant against confusing three very distinct concepts when thinking about the universe. Roughly stated, these are; What is the shape of the universe? Is the universe finite or infinite? and Will the [...]
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The LHC just saw its first collisions at 8 TeV, and all seems well. This should be an exciting year for the accelerator, and a film crew is documenting the action as part of a project called CERNPeople. It consists of a YouTube channel and a Google+ page, worth checking out. Throughout the year they’ll [...]
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At just after midnight in Geneva, operators brought stable beams of protons into collisions at the record-breaking energy of 8 TeV — 4 TeV per beam — for the first time. This marked the beginning of the LHC experiments’ data-taking for physics for 2012. “The experience of two good years of running at 3.5 TeV [...]
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Neutrino physicists in the U.S. have begun to regroup after a disappointing setback last week, when they learned the Department of Energy would not support the budget of a major proposed experiment. The silver lining, as they see it, is that they have the chance to reevaluate their plans and find a path forward. DOE [...]
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Hot on the heels of the Daya Bay experiment's completion of one of the most difficult measurements in neutrino physics, a Korean experiment has produced its own measurement confirming the earlier results.