• Vacuum Einstein Equation

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:59:55
    Sorry if I am asking a too trivial question! I am having a confusion regarding the following-The solution to Einstein equation in vacuum is given by the Schwarzschild metric. However, what does the...

  • Solenoid within a solenoid

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:41:17
    I was looking at Griffiths intro to electrodynamics problem 6.12 and Im confused by the solution given in the solution manual. If you have this book or not Ill explain the problem anyway. We...

  • problem on cauchy riemann equations

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:16:52
    *1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data* f(z)=cos(1/z) is the function analytic. if yes what is the domain of analyticity? can any solve this problem please..... *2....

  • Spacecraft re-entry

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:54:51
    I recently read about the communication blackout during a spacecraft re-entry.. The reason given was the high density plasma formed whose plasma frequency is such that the communication waves do not...

  • Work done by friction/gravity

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:49:17
    *1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data* In a lab experiment, we pushed a cart up an inclined plane. The cart had wheels and we are taking friction into account. I'm told to...

  • They’re Back!

    Updated: 2012-10-31 11:31:56
    Asymptotia The Fifth Feeling They’re Back Published on October 31, 2012 in flowers gardening and Los Angeles 0 Comments And this time they mean business That wonderful giant cactus plant in the back garden has done its trick of suddenly producing a host of lovely large flowers again Click to enlarge photo , and see below for links to earlier years’ posts on the very same phenomenon I saw them Tuesday morning , and I think they’ll be gone very soon by Wednesday or the day after So lovely , so massive and so sad that they last for so short a . time But such is life . Enjoy and revel in things while they last , and then move on , holding the essence of it close inside . you cvj On this day on Asymptotia . The Dining Society 2010 Spooky Strings 2006 String Theory Goes A Little Bit Country 2006

  • The Fifth Feeling!

    Updated: 2012-10-31 00:50:44
    Check out episodes 1 and 2 of The Fifth Feeling, a new web series that has a comedic heart and a science documentary wrapper that might amuse you! I think it is hilarious*! There'll be more episodes appearing [...]

  • Wal Sargent

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:48:02
    I’m very sad to report that Wallace Sargent, a distinguished astronomer at Caltech, died yesterday. Wal, as he was known, was a world leader in spectroscopy and extragalactic astronomy, with a specialty in studies of quasar absorption lines. He played a crucial role in numerous major projects in astronomy, including serving as the director of [...]

  • What else could the Higgs be?

    Updated: 2012-10-30 16:00:00
    On July 4, scientists around the world popped open champagne bottles and toasted the culmination of nearly five decades of research. They had discovered a new particle, one that looked awfully similar to the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs boson has for decades been the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. But even if the new particle completes the puzzle, some of its pieces still refuse to fit.

  • Dark-matter seekers get help from the DarkSide

    Updated: 2012-10-29 15:13:17
    A treasure trove of dark-matter detectors rests within the deep reaches of Italy's Apennine Mountains as part of Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The mountains shield the detectors from cosmic rays, making them highly sensitive to dark-matter particles.

  • Guidelines On Using Radiation Resistant Lenses

    Updated: 2012-10-29 14:44:52
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  • Silicon Carbide SIC Nanoparticles

    Updated: 2012-10-29 14:44:35
    Silicon carbide nanoparticles possesses high purity, narrow range particle size distribution, and larger specific surface area; 2. Silicon carbide nano powder has chemical stability...

  • Low Temperature Techniques Course 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 19 Dec 2012, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Low Temperature Group.

  • Physics of Emergent Behaviour: From Molecules to Individuals

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013, The Grand, Brighton, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Biological Physics Group.

  • 9th Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPPAC' 13)

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 20 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013, Aswan, Egypt. Organized by ENPA.

  • PR'13: International conference on photorefreactive effects, materials and devices

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 4 Sep 2013 - 6 Sep 2013, The Winchester Hotel, Winchester, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Optical Group.

  • 10 Years Club of Amsterdam

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 6 Dec 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Organized by Club of Amsterdam.

  • Third International Conference on Theoretical Physics

    Updated: 2012-10-28 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Jun 2013 - 28 Jun 2013, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation. Organized by Moscow State Open University.

  • Plasma accelerators: High quality, even by the slice

    Updated: 2012-10-26 01:00:00
    In Wim Leemans’ lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sits one of the world’s most advanced R&D accelerators. By pushing electrons forward on the crest of plasma waves, the accelerator is capable of accelerating electron bunches from an energy of 0 to 1 billion electronvolts in just 3 centimeters. But, until now, Leemans and his team were unable to quantify exactly how uniform that acceleration was within a bunch of electrons. This measurement is especially important for one of the most promising applications of plasma accelerators: free-electron lasers.

  • DonorsChoose 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-25 14:32:15
    DonorsChoose is a great program that lets people give small (or large, if that’s how they roll) charitable donations targeted at specific classrooms and educational programs around the country. We have participated frequently in the past, but this year we didn’t quite get our act together. But it doesn’t matter who sets up the donors [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-25 01:54:05
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-25 01:54:05
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06

  • Plasma accelerators: Finding focus

    Updated: 2012-10-25 01:00:00
    Seeking less costly, more efficient means of particle acceleration, physicists are developing new types of machines that zip particles to high energies in short distances. One promising method harnesses the power of plasma, accelerating electron bunches on the crest of plasma waves. Physicists recently discovered a way to measure the focus of such a beam, despite the fact that the plasma would melt traditional diagnostic tools.

  • SLAC gets a new director

    Updated: 2012-10-24 01:00:00
    SLAC has a new director: X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao. Kao currently serves as Associate Laboratory Director for SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and Acting Associate Laboratory Director for the lab's Photon Science directorate. He will assume the directorship on November 1.

  • Gravitational waves

    Updated: 2012-10-23 18:00:00
    Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but scientists have yet to observe them directly.

  • TEDYouth Approaching!

    Updated: 2012-10-23 17:24:35
    Asymptotia 100 Registered TEDYouth Approaching Published on October 23, 2012 in education fun science science education string theory and work 0 Comments Ack As you know , it has been an incredibly busy semester for me , but I still try to find time to tell you a bit of what is going on . Not long ago I got an email from the TED people asking me if I’d like to talk at one of their events . This event is for young people , called TEDYouth . It’ll be on November 17th . Well , this is such a good cause how can I not do this You can see the announcement of the incredible lineup” of speakers on TED’s site here I linked the photomontage they used there . I’m looking forward to being in the audience to hear some of these guys talk So of course , I now find myself a week behind where I should be

  • 100 Registered!

    Updated: 2012-10-22 03:28:39
    So one of the things that has been taking up my time is the USC Science Film Competition. Well, last week, an important (slightly nail-biting) deadline passed, and that was the date by which interdisciplinary teams should have formed (finding each other due to the awareness campaign I've been running around doing since August - with the help of faculty who kindly spread the word in their classes, the blog I set up, an article by Pam Johnson in the Dornsife News, and ads in the Daily Trojan), come up with a film idea, and registered it. So the day came, and (of course) within 20 minutes of the appointed cut-off hour [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-20 06:19:50
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass 2012.10.05 VERTEX 2012 Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-20 06:19:36
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass 2012.10.05 VERTEX 2012 Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Learning to play the dark matter boogie

    Updated: 2012-10-19 18:00:00
    Scientists from the groups of professors Risa Wechsler and Tom Abel at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, an institute run jointly by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, are busily crafting enough computer simulation tools to outfit a major stadium tour—if simulations were musical instruments and the KIPAC scientists a supergroup. They’ve managed to meld their different strains of software into the type of melody that dark matter just might dance to.

  • Angry Birds to teach particle physics

    Updated: 2012-10-18 16:28:20
    CERN and Angry Birds-creator Rovio announced last Friday that they will team up to produce a learning program for children between 3 and 8 years old. The partnership will focus on the Angry Birds Playground brand, which is designed to make learning about physics fun and accessible for all ages. It is based on Finland’s national kindergarten curriculum.

  • Feynman on Initial Conditions, Evolving Laws, and What We Consider Physics

    Updated: 2012-10-18 16:02:53
    We’ve mentioned before that Richard Feynman was way ahead of his time when it came to the need to understand cosmological initial conditions and the low entropy of the early universe. (Among other things, of course.) Feynman actually wrote three different books in the early 1960′s — in his way of “writing books,” which consisted [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-17 10:20:45
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass 2012.10.05 VERTEX 2012 Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • A summer of (physics) code

    Updated: 2012-10-15 06:00:00
    Anyone in the world with a computer can contribute to research at CERN. Through the LHC@Home project, volunteers can offer up spare computing power to simulate and process collisions happening inside the Large Hadron Collider. CERN recently improved the program with a new feature that helps scientists monitor the system that distributes work among volunteers’ computers. But the new feature is not the work of a CERN employee; it is the work of a college undergraduate who had the chance to work with CERN through the 2012 Google Summer of Code.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-13 19:20:20
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.13 Snowmass” Not Snowmass 2012.10.05 VERTEX 2012 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness 2012.07.05

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-12 18:44:34
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.05 VERTEX 2012 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs silliness

  • Video: Making an accelerator run

    Updated: 2012-10-12 06:00:00
    Every year, particle accelerators play an essential role in scientific discovery, industry and even medicine. But what does it take to make an accelerator run? This video, produced by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, takes you into the department that builds klystrons, the devices that propel particles to nearly the speed of light within SLAC’s accelerators. 

  • Look

    Updated: 2012-10-11 16:42:03
    Look. No, really look. -cvj

  • Electronics in an extra dimension

    Updated: 2012-10-11 06:00:00
    Particle detectors are the eyes of physicists, peering closely into particle events to help us understand the basic laws of nature. To develop the kind of sight needed to view the complex particle events of future experiments, researchers are transforming detection technology by developing new, intelligent detectors. They are pushing past the limits of two-dimensional chips, the current technology, by adding to them another dimension. The three-dimensional integrated chip, or 3DIC, will be key for future detectors.

  • Guest Post: John Preskill on Individual Quantum Systems

    Updated: 2012-10-11 02:12:57
    In the last post I suggested that nobody should come to these parts looking for insight into the kind of work that was just rewarded with the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. How wrong I was! True, you shouldn’t look to me for such things, but we were able to borrow an expert from a [...]

  • Time projection chambers: a milestone in particle detector technology

    Updated: 2012-10-10 06:00:00
    This type of detector may have a futuristic name, but it already has a spot in the history of particle physics.

  • Nobel Prize to Haroche and Wineland

    Updated: 2012-10-09 16:32:35
    Nobody comes to these parts (at least, they shouldn’t) looking for insight into atomic physics, quantum optics, and related fields, but hearty congratulations to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Here are helpful stories by Alex Witze and Dennis Overbye. One way of thinking about their accomplishments is [...]

  • Caring for the prairie

    Updated: 2012-10-09 06:00:00
    Ryan Campbell, an ecologist with Fermilab’s Roads and Grounds Group, leans back in his office chair on a hot, humid Illinois summer morning. His gaze fixes on a large aerial photograph of the Fermilab property, on which he’d placed nametags on some of the large swaths of green fields and forests.

  • Nobel honors research by particle trappers

    Updated: 2012-10-09 06:00:00
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics to two scientists who developed groundbreaking experimental methods that are the first steps toward building a new type of supercomputer known as a quantum computer. Their research has also led to the construction of extremely precise clocks that may replace present-day atomic clocks.

  • CicLAvia Today!

    Updated: 2012-10-07 08:11:36
    …and the new route for this time has a leg that runs down to USC and Exposition Park! There’s also a deeper run into East LA and into Chinatown! Check out the map and other information here. See previous posts for reports and time lapse videos… Enjoy! -cvj

  • Stars dancing around a black hole may test relativity

    Updated: 2012-10-05 19:29:02
    A star found zipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be just what scientists need to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, according to a paper published in today’s issue of Science.

  • Spacewalking

    Updated: 2012-10-05 06:23:28
    If you’ve ever spent much time around astronomers, you’ll know that they tend to like their theme wear — space ties, galaxy t-shirts, satellite lapel pins, etc. To this list, I am thrilled beyond measure to add space clogs. Yes, space clogs. Dansko has come out with a limited edition “Stargazer” version of their standard [...]

  • Video: Understanding the underpinnings of the universe

    Updated: 2012-10-04 21:40:41
    According to chemistry, everything in the universe is made of about 100 elements, as described by the Periodic Table. According to particle physics, those elements can be further divided into subatomic particles. The Standard Model, physics' answer to the Periodic Table, contains a short list of ingredients for all of matter: six quarks, six leptons and four force-carrying particles. 

  • Panofsky Prize honors researchers' underground hunt for dark matter

    Updated: 2012-10-02 17:03:41
    While some researchers are scanning the heavens with powerful telescopes to detect dark matter or crashing particles together in an effort to create and study its exotic components, Bernard Sadoulet, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Blas Cabrera, of Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have sought the same answers in deep shafts largely shielded from cosmic rays and other unwanted particle "noise."

  • Digging Up the Early Universe

    Updated: 2012-10-02 16:31:38
    I wrote another column for Discover (the actual magazine), which is now available online. It’s about how far back in cosmological time we can push our knowledge on the basis of actual data, not mere theory. Of course we literally look back in time every time we peer into a telescope, since it takes time [...]

  • Beehives

    Updated: 2012-10-02 14:00:00
    Inside their hives, bees face a variety of enemies. Parasites transfer diseases. Bacteria infect honey. Fungi overwhelm larvae. These problems can become so rife that the hives are rendered inhospitable.  To save their bee colonies, some beekeepers turn to particle accelerators. The infection of bees and their larvae can be devastating to a colony. Sometimes it kills off all the bees in a hive. Other times, the bees live but are so exhausted that they don’t produce as much honey or as strong of larvae, causing the beekeeper to replace the colony nonetheless.  

  • Reminder: Subscriptions now customizable

    Updated: 2012-10-02 08:00:00
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  • Flying…

    Updated: 2012-10-02 07:27:47
    ...Still a little disturbed by this. More later, I promise. -cvj

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-01 22:37:48
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-01 22:37:48
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-01 22:37:48
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-01 22:37:48
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-01 22:37:47
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.10.01 Happy Birthday ATLAS 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • You are getting sleeeeeeepy…..

    Updated: 2012-10-01 21:33:01
    Ikeguchi Laboratories has posted one of the most fantastic “physics in action” videos I’ve seen in a long time: The concept is simple — 32 metronomes on a table, all set to the same tempo, but started at slightly different times. But here’s the fun bit — although they begin “out of phase“, after about [...]

  • Mysteries of Time: New Teaching Company Course

    Updated: 2012-10-01 16:24:34
    Just in time for the holidays (Halloween totally counts as a holiday), the Teaching Company (a/k/a “The Great Courses) is releasing a new course I recorded — Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the format (and my previous course, Dark Matter and Dark Energy), this is a set [...]

  • Why String Theory?

    Updated: 2012-09-21 16:41:08
    Breathless press reports notwithstanding, string theory is very far from being dead. If you’re interested in what it is and what’s going on within the field, I can recommend a new website called Why String Theory? (And of course, accompanying twitter feed @WhyStringTheory.) It was set up by Oxford undergraduates Charlotte Mason and Edward Hughes, [...]

  • Congratulations to Moh!

    Updated: 2012-09-20 19:32:56
    This is amusing (and well-deserved). It also warrants me taking out my sunglasses and putting them on every time I see him, whether indoors or out, for at least a week or two. -cvj

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-20 15:12:09
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-20 15:12:07
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-20 15:12:06
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.17 So long , and thanks for all the fish 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics

  • Time Talk

    Updated: 2012-09-18 22:14:05
    With The Particle at the End of the Universe scheduled to come out in November, most of the popular-level talks I’ll be giving in the near future will have to do with the LHC and the Higgs boson — and quantum field theory, as part of my secret agenda to get QFT accepted as part [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-15 14:38:19
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger 2012.09.06 BOOST Part 2 : Jet Mass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-15 14:38:19
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger 2012.09.06 BOOST Part 2 : Jet Mass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-15 14:38:06
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger 2012.09.06 BOOST Part 2 : Jet Mass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-15 14:38:02
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.15 I don’t really like flying , but 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger 2012.09.06 BOOST Part 2 : Jet Mass Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More

  • THE HIGGS FIELD DIMENSIONAL MATRIX: OTHER ETHER FUNCTIONS, CHAOS AND FAST LIGHT SYMMETRY

    Updated: 2012-09-15 12:00:34
    HIGGS FIELD: SPEAK TO ME, Samij Datta, 2012 THE HIGGS FIELD DIMENSIONAL MATRIX: OTHER ETHER FUNCTION

  • Federal Commitment Needed for Big Science

    Updated: 2012-09-13 17:36:44
    By Michael S. Lubell Special to Roll Call Sept. 10, 2012  At 3 a.m. EDT on the Fourth of July, among

  • Yesterday...

    Updated: 2012-09-13 01:33:12
    Yesterday was a strange day, I wandered into a church and found the Higgs boson giving mass…

  • Science roundup: Higgs boson passes peer review/Antimatter propulsion looks feasible

    Updated: 2012-09-12 20:18:04
    Click to enlarge. Trust me- you want to do this! Before the newsy stuff I had to give you that eye-g

  • Higgs Boson papers clear peer review

    Updated: 2012-09-12 17:30:13
    Prefix Test The two papers documenting evidence that CERN has found a particle matching the descript

  • Higgs boson gets peer-review seal of approval - physics-math - 12 September 2012 - New Scientist

    Updated: 2012-09-12 14:28:20
    Higgs boson gets peer-review seal of approval – physics-math – 12 September 2012 –

  • Too many heavy particles could mean trouble for the Standard Model

    Updated: 2012-09-11 20:22:48
    The Standard Model (SM) of particles and interactions provides a successful description of most of t

  • The Higgs Boson

    Updated: 2012-09-11 18:39:03
    The decay of a particle collision, from which the Higgs has been possibly observed.   Th

  • Cern reveals plans for new experiments to solve the mystery of how gravity works

    Updated: 2012-09-11 15:10:17
    After discovering the smallest particle that could ever exist, the team at Cern is now considering s

  • The Quadrodynamics of Angular Momentum of a Particle in Higgs Field: WATUHIHA FUNCTIONS ON SUPERSTRING ANTI-GRAVITY

    Updated: 2012-09-11 07:50:29
                                                                   HIGGS FIELD, Samij Datta, 2012 Consci

  • NBC News: Comics go beyond the Higgs boson

    Updated: 2012-09-10 17:32:11
    By Alan Boyle If only there were a graphic novel that could guide you around the frontiers of physic

  • A Capella Science ... Adele meets the Higgs...

    Updated: 2012-09-10 14:37:40
    Tim Blais of the YouTube A Capella Science channel has posted a nicely done clip with his own lyrics

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-08 08:01:53
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.07 Why particle detectors need a trigger 2012.09.06 BOOST Part 2 : Jet Mass 2012.09.04 Biking to CERN Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:08:43
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.04 Biking to CERN 2012.09.01 The LHC sneaks along , part 2 2012.08.30 What Goes on My Research Page Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:08:42
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.04 Biking to CERN 2012.09.01 The LHC sneaks along , part 2 2012.08.30 What Goes on My Research Page Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-09-05 22:08:38
    Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.09.04 Biking to CERN 2012.09.01 The LHC sneaks along , part 2 2012.08.30 What Goes on My Research Page Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

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