• Milky Way will be hit head-on

    Updated: 2012-05-31 21:26:33
    Andromeda galaxy will smash directly into ours

  • Underground science lab dedicated deep in the Black Hills

    Updated: 2012-05-31 16:21:27
    Wednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota.

  • 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics

    Updated: 2012-05-30 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 4 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Joint European Magnetic Symposia 2012 (JEMS2012)

    Updated: 2012-05-30 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 9 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012, Parma, Italy. Organized by IMEM-CNR Institute and University of Parma.

  • Multiscale Complex Fluid Flows and Interfacial Phenomena

    Updated: 2012-05-30 00:00:00
    Workshop: 29 Oct 2012 - 1 Nov 2012, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Organized by Detlef Lohse, Serafim Kalliadasis, Howard A. Stone, Uwe Thiele.

  • DOE awards $2.5 million to Fermilab’s Brendan Casey

    Updated: 2012-05-29 14:00:38
    This month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 million over five years.

  • Horizons of Quantum Physics: from Foundations to Quantum-Enabled Technologies

    Updated: 2012-05-28 00:00:00
    Workshop: 14 Oct 2012 - 18 Oct 2012, Taipei City, Taiwan.

  • The Josephson Effect 50 years on

    Updated: 2012-05-28 00:00:00
    Conference: 23 Jun 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Organized by James Stirling, John Clarke, and Judith Driscoll.

  • Physicists, start your searches: INSPIRE database now online

    Updated: 2012-05-24 16:00:27
    The next generation of the iconic SPIRES particle-physics database, called INSPIRE, is now online and operational, ready to serve scientists around the globe.

  • Computational Plasma Physics

    Updated: 2012-05-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 5 Sep 2012 - 7 Sep 2012, The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Computational Physics Group.

  • IOP PGS Annual Student Conference

    Updated: 2012-05-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 6 Dec 2012, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Printing and Graphics Science.

  • Physics in Healthcare

    Updated: 2012-05-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 31 Oct 2012, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP Applied Physics and Technology Division.

  • BRSG Christmas Meeting 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 11 Dec 2012, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom. Organized by the IOP BRSG: The Magnetic Resonance Group.

  • Driving the next magnet revolution

    Updated: 2012-05-22 15:20:43
    The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.

  • Does the MOND Machian 1/r term explain both attractive dark matter and repulsive dark energy?

    Updated: 2012-05-21 23:38:02
    From: JACK SARFATTI <sarfatti@pacbell.net> Subject: Does the MOND Machian 1/r term explain both attractive dark matter and repulsive dark energy? Date: May 21, 2012 8:32:51 PM PDT To: Paul Zielinski <iksnileiz@gmail.com>, Exotic Physics <exoticphysics@mail.softcafe.net> On May 21, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote: As I said, if Jim gets a positive experimental result that holds up to scrutiny, then we will have to take another loo...

  • Back From The Future Experiment Succeeds

    Updated: 2012-05-20 21:44:51
    http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/32

  • Scientists celebrate completion of underground physics laboratory

    Updated: 2012-05-17 14:00:18
    The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large underground particle physics laboratory, the grand opening of which will take place today.

  • Thursday: Chat with physicists on Twitter

    Updated: 2012-05-16 20:08:23
    Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat.

  • Researchers developing underwater neutrino experiment make oceanographic discovery

    Updated: 2012-05-15 22:45:53
    Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.

  • Does filamentary accretion of dark matter sub-halos naturally produce a VPOS-like structure?

    Updated: 2012-05-15 09:44:56
    SciLogs All Blogs Next Does filamentary accretion of dark matter sub-halos naturally produce a VPOS-like structure from Marcel S . Pawlowski 15. May 2012, 10:44 In the previous post we discussed the VPOS , the vast polar structure of satellite objects around the Milky Way . One of the suggested origins within the cosmological cold dark matter paradigm is that the satellites have been preferentially accreted along large , cosmic filaments . These are long , thread-like structures which arise naturally during the formation of structure in the cosmos . The movie below shows how they come : about One work suggesting that filamentary accretion can solve the VPOS-problem is Lovell et al . 2011 Its abstract claims that : All six haloes of the Aquarius simulations possess a population of subhaloes

  • New accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

    Updated: 2012-05-09 15:30:27
    Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.

  • Fermilab scientists revise plans for construction of new accelerator project

    Updated: 2012-05-07 22:16:21
    With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial costs.

  • On the unification of gravity with the strong force May 6, 2012

    Updated: 2012-05-06 19:26:07
    PS - there is no Higgs mechanism here in the usual sense. The eight vacuum condensate Goldstone phases that represent macro-quantum coherent Glauber states of virtual (off-shell) massless spin zero bosons are singular multi-valued Cartan 0-forms whose exterior derivatives are the still massless spin 1 strong force vector gluons. Because the 0-forms are singular multivalued the massless spin 1 vector gluon 1-forms are not closed and have non-vanishing 2-form exterior derivatives. Details are show...

  • NOvA neutrino detector’s future home in Minnesota complete

    Updated: 2012-05-03 19:29:16
    On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.

  • The vast polar structure - VPOS - of satellite objects around the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-04-28 22:54:24
    SciLogs All Blogs Next The vast polar structure VPOS of satellite objects around the Milky Way from Marcel S . Pawlowski 28. April 2012, 23:54 After the worrisome news for dark matter in the last weeks we have to add another today and there is more to come very soon This time , we show that the disc of satellite galaxies is only a part of a bigger structure : a vast polar structure VPOS of diverse satellite objects surrounds the Milky Way , unexpected from cosmological . models With the increasing resolution of cosmological simulations of structure and galaxy formation , it became possible to make predictions on smaller scales . In particular , it became apparent that the dark matter subhalos , typically identified as the sites of luminous satellite galaxies around a host galaxy , are more

  • Dark Matter gone missing in many places: a crisis of modern physics?

    Updated: 2012-04-19 20:41:31
    : SciLogs All Blogs Next Dark Matter gone missing in many places : a crisis of modern physics from Marcel S . Pawlowski 19. April 2012, 21:41 On The Dark Matter Crisis , we have already presented numerous problems that appear within the LCDM model of cosmology . Some of these have been given names , like the Missing Satellites Problem where LCDM predicts more dark matter subhaloes around the Milky Way than there are observed satellite galaxies , which are expected to trace them . Or the Missing Baryons Problem from cosmological predictions we expect a certain density in the baryonic , luminous and thus in principle observable matter . But when you add up all the visible matter you observed , you only get 10-40 per cent of what you expect . The larger fraction is missing . Even the ongoing

  • German TV tip: physics at the verge of collapse - science in the dark

    Updated: 2012-04-16 23:46:36
    A short TV-tip for our German readers: on April 17 (today) at 18:30 on 3sat there will be a "nano spezial" about fundamental problems of physics and cosmology, dark matter and dark energy. It is titled "Physik vor dem Kollaps - Die Wissenschaft steht im Dunkeln". It includes an interview with Pavel Kroupa. For those without TV: the programme can already be found online in the 3sat Mediathek and will be available for the next seven days.

  • Question D: What about the Bullet cluster? And what about the Train-Wreck cluster Abell 520?

    Updated: 2012-04-15 19:15:29
    : SciLogs All Blogs Next Question D : What about the Bullet cluster And what about the Train-Wreck cluster Abell 520 from Pavel Kroupa 15. April 2012, 20:15 : Summary One result is very definite by now : neither the Bullet nor the Train Wreck clusters support nor do they prove the existence of cold or warm dark matter . And , they certainly do not disprove MOND . Quite on the contrary , according to current knowledge , they falsify the concordance cosmological or LCDM . model The Bullet cluster consists of two clusters of galaxies that have penetrated each other leaving behind a slab of gas while the now seperating clusters retain matter as revealed through gravitational lensing . Assuming General Relativity GR to be valid t he lensing measurements tell us that collisionless dark matter

  • Question C.III: Fundamental theoretical problems

    Updated: 2012-03-31 14:25:26
    : SciLogs All Blogs Next Question C.III : Fundamental theoretical problems from Pavel Kroupa 31. March 2012, 15:25 Rather than being posted soon after II : MOND works far too well published on the 21.03.2011 a delay caused by internal university issues arose . We are back though , for the time being , with the originally advertised Question C.III : Fundamental theoretical problems this contribution To re-iterate : what is the purpose of this series on SciLogs We are aiming to document , within the time we have for such matters , the already noticeable paradigm shift away from a dark-matter dominated Einsteinian inflationary cosmology model to a different description which may , or may not , be fundamentally based on Einstein's GR theory . nbsp Continuing now with Qestion C.III : : Summary

  • Getting a Full Picture of an Elusive Subject

    Updated: 2012-03-14 05:00:00
    A cluster of galaxies located about 2.3 billion light years from Earth.

  • Dark Matter and Galaxies Part Ways in Collision between Hefty Galaxy Clusters

    Updated: 2012-03-02 05:00:00
    A collision of massive galaxy clusters located about 2.4 billion light years from Earth.

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