Astronomy meeting tomorrow and the 2012 night sky « South Dublin …
Updated: 2011-11-24 00:54:46
Astronomy meeting tomorrow and the 2012 night sky.
It’s been a couple of months since scientists first reported the possibility of neutrinos traveling faster than light, a finding that if upheld would turn fundamental physics on its head. There’s been a lot of speculation about the possibility since then, but a majority of physicists seem to have dismissed it. However, there’s also been [...]
On Friday, a news story came out that a second experiment seems to support the results of an earlier experiment which showed neutrinos might be moving faster than light. I commented about this on Google+ at the time, but I want to post about it here as well. Let me be clear: this new result [...]
When I looked at this picture of Easter Island and matched it to a recent picture of Peter Higgs the best fit was the first statue, but where does the Higgs Boson fit best on the search plots from the LHC? It may be a little late now to try to analyse the latest public [...]
The OPERA experiment has failed to find an error in their measurement of neutrino speeds that shows them travelling faster than light. The earlier result was most strongly criticized because of the statistical nature of the measurement which involved fitting the timing profile of many observed events at Gran Sasso to the known shape of long duration [...]
This year all physics eyes are on the Large Hadron Collider as it approaches its promised landmark discovery of the Higgs Boson (or maybe its undiscovery). At the same time some physicists are planning the future for the next generation of colliders. What will they be like? The answer depends in part on what the [...]