1. Higgs: What causes the weight of the world
Updated: 2012-12-21 06:00:00
Physicists have identified the "God" particle responsible for all matter in the universe, coming closer to a theory of everything.- Physicists have identified the "God" particle responsible for all matter in the universe, coming closer to a theory of everything.
8. Mapping the Dark Cosmos
Updated: 2012-12-21 06:00:00Dark matter—the unseen stuff that makes up more than four-fifths of the matter in the universe—is finally coming into view. What we see may change our entire picture of reality.
Our top 5 physics moments of 2012
Updated: 2012-12-20 00:29:34
2012 has been a busy year for physics. With the impending end of the world (only a day to go now!) we thought we’d better get our round up of the year’s top physics moments in before it’s too late. No physics round up of 2012 could start with anything other than… we found the Higgs! In particle physics speak, [...]Quantum Mechanics Fall Class Lecture Notes
Updated: 2012-12-14 18:33:59Classes are over for the semester, and I’ve put together the lecture notes for my undergraduate “Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians” course, which are available here. The idea for the course was to try and explain the basics of quantum mechanics, … Continue reading →Arkani-Hamed on Naturalness
Updated: 2012-12-14 00:00:23For the latest SUSY enthusiast take on the implications of what the LHC has been (not) seeing, your best bet might be yesterday’s talk at the KITP by Nima Arkani-Hamed on Naturalness. An hour and 40 minutes, no slides, nothing … Continue reading →New Higgs Results Tomorrow?
Updated: 2012-12-12 15:52:54As part of the CERN Council activities this week, there will be a session held with a live webcast tomorrow on Status of the LHC and Experiments. I’m hearing that there will be news about the Higgs from ATLAS: new … Continue reading →New Milner Prizes
Updated: 2012-12-11 01:27:39The New York Times is reporting that tomorrow Yuri Milner will be announcing the award of a new set of prizes for fundamental physics work, this time including some experimentalists as recipients. The awards are $3 million for the experimental … Continue reading →First Results from the Large Hardon Collider
Updated: 2012-12-10 20:58:48There’s a conference in Bad Honnef going on now entitled First Results from the LHC, with a website that carries two different interpretations of what “LHC” stands for (see the screenshot below): The talks are here. Yesterday CERN DG Rolf … Continue reading →This Week’s Hype
Updated: 2012-12-10 20:45:29Space.com has a new story entitled Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything, which has been picked up elsewhere as “evidence for string theory”. For instance Physicists Find New Evidence Of A ‘Theory Of Everything’ In The Wreckage Of … Continue reading →Southern California Strings Seminar
Updated: 2012-12-10 01:40:47Asymptotia Slow Southern California Strings Seminar Published on December 9, 2012 in Los Angeles research science string theory and work 0 Comments The next Southern California Strings Seminar is on Thursday 13th December I’ve now made the website for this one and it is here Come back to it from time to time to see the updates of talk titles as speakers let me know what they are . It is a one-day event filled with five talks and plenty of time for discussion . I’ve snagged a lovely room in the Doheny library again . Photo left has a shot of the room we used last time it was at USC in May 2011. The most recent one was over at UCLA . You are welcome to come and do physics with us Also , if you’re part of a group in the region and want to host the next one , let me . know cvj On this day onDecay: The LHC Zombie Film
Updated: 2012-12-08 20:08:01Today is the release date for the film Decay, described as “a zombie film made and set at the LHC, by physics PhD students”. It’s available for download here, on Youtube here. The plot is summarized as The film follows … Continue reading →Forty Years of String Theory
Updated: 2012-12-06 03:08:08The journal Foundations of Physics has been promising a special issue on “Forty Years of String Theory: Reflecting on the Foundations” for quite a while now, with a contribution first appearing back when it really was 40 years since the … Continue reading →