• General questions about electromagnetism.

    Updated: 2012-11-30 17:00:11
    I was wondering about some basic concepts of electromagnetism. Firstly, resistance is kind of like the measure of obstruction in a conducting material; right? So maybe the atomic properties of the...

  • Nature of Inertia and the Emptiness of Space

    Updated: 2012-11-30 16:28:59
    While this may seem like a silly question, I had difficulty answering it completely. "If space is a vacuum, why aren't we somewhere else already?" If it is truly empty, devoid of any substance...

  • how many tree-levels in various QED processes

    Updated: 2012-11-30 16:15:22
    Why do Compton scattering, pair annihilation, Moller scattering and Bhabba scattering have two tree-level Feynman graphs to sum over, whereas electron-positron to muon-antimuon scattering and...

  • Senior Manager - Bentonville, AR

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:10:01
    Walmart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 10,130 retail units under 69 different banners in 27 countries. With fiscal year 2012 sales of $443 billion,...

  • Scientific Programmer - Crop Genomics

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:10:01
    Scientific Programmer ? Crop Genomics (1002341) Applications are invited for a Scientific Programmer at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC). This position will focus on the analysis of crop genomes...

  • Measuring individual atoms with compact X-ray lasers

    Updated: 2012-11-30 13:53:05
    To look at small objects typically requires big machines. For example, the study of single atoms with a laser requires x-ray radiation of such high energy that it is only produced by accelerating electrons in large facilities. Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima have developed a more affordable electron laser design, the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron Laser (SACLA), which is not only compact and therefore economic to build but also delivers x-rays with unprecedented short wavelengths.

  • Table-top test targets quantum foam

    Updated: 2012-11-29 16:09:48
    Single photons could shed light on quantum gravity

  • Freshening Up

    Updated: 2012-11-29 16:09:12
    You may have noticed that all the Discover blogs now have a new look. (One that is still being tweaked, so don’t expect to see my headshot up there for very long.) In fact the whole site has been updated, so there may have been some issues in page loading times and so on. All [...]

  • Supersymmetry Fails Test, Forcing Physics to Seek New Ideas

    Updated: 2012-11-29 12:00:00
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  • Vital forces

    Updated: 2012-11-29 11:00:00
    A rare popular-science book on biophysics, reviewed by Richard Jones

  • Vital forces

    Updated: 2012-11-29 11:00:00
    A rare popular-science book on biophysics, reviewed by Richard Jones

  • What made Bell Labs special?

    Updated: 2012-11-29 10:00:00
    A history of Bell Labs, reviewed by Andrew Gelman

  • What made Bell Labs special?

    Updated: 2012-11-29 10:00:00
    A history of Bell Labs, reviewed by Andrew Gelman

  • Between the lines: Christmas special

    Updated: 2012-11-29 09:00:00
    A bumper crop of books reviewed by Margaret Harris and Tushna Commissariat

  • Flat Bands: Design, Topology, and Correlations

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:00:00
    Workshop: 6 Mar 2013 - 9 Mar 2013, Dresden, Germany. Organized by Marcel Franz, Roderich Moessner, Sid Parameswaran.

  • PETER Conference 2013

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 18 Feb 2013 - 19 Feb 2013, London, United Kingdom. Organized by Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-28 15:47:29
    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 2012.11.22 Higgs update , HCP 2012 2012.11.20 Particles of the Day 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 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: 2012-11-28 15:47:29
    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 2012.11.22 Higgs update , HCP 2012 2012.11.20 Particles of the Day 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 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: 2012-11-28 15:47:28
    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 2012.11.22 Higgs update , HCP 2012 2012.11.20 Particles of the Day 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 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

  • Stellar black widows entrap companion stars

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:00:00
    In its four years in orbit, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a cosmos teeming with points of gamma-ray light. Newly discovered gamma-ray sources run the gamut from the expected, like supernova remnants and active galactic nuclei, to the surprising, like gamma rays from the sun or Earth-bound lightning strikes.

  • Taking x-ray phase contrast imaging into mainstream applications

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:00:00
    Conference: 11 Feb 2013 - 12 Feb 2013, London, United Kingdom. Organized by Dr Alessandro Olivo and Professor Ian Robinson.

  • New Horizons in Lattice Field Theory

    Updated: 2012-11-28 00:00:00
    School: 13 Mar 2013 - 27 Mar 2013, Natal, Brazil.

  • Thanksgiving in the Main Control Room

    Updated: 2012-11-27 15:27:14
    Particle colliders do not keep normal working hours. They must be tended to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holidays included. Few people know this as well as the family of Robert “Obie” Oberholtzer, a talented engineer whom crews at Fermilab would call—any day, any time—when something went wrong with the accelerator complex for the laboratory’s particle collider, the Tevatron.

  • 2013 International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number Violation: From the Cosmos to the LHC

    Updated: 2012-11-27 00:00:00
    Workshop: 8 Apr 2013 - 11 Apr 2013, Heidelberg, Germany.

  • Contributing to an LHC experiment, no transatlantic travel required

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:10:30
    Physicist Sam Hewamanage woke up, got ready and made his usual 15-minute drive to work. He parked his car, walked inside and sat at his workstation before digging into his primary task for the day: monitoring a particle detector located 100 meters underground on the border of Switzerland and France. Hewamanage (pictured below) doesn’t live in Europe. He lives in Batavia, Ill., just outside of Chicago. But he can work on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider as if he were on the CERN campus, thanks to the Remote Operations Center at Fermilab.

  • Higgs couplings to fermions and massive vector bosons

    Updated: 2012-11-23 16:24:11
    Let’s review the tests of the Higgs couplings to fermions and massive vector bosons completed by CMS and ATLAS. The Higgs mechanism generates mass terms in the standard model Lagrangian. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the same time that the W and Z bosons get their mass. Fermions masses, on the other hand, are generated [...]

  • Measurement of the Mass of the Higgs Boson

    Updated: 2012-11-21 22:34:20
    Let’s use the word “Higgs boson” for the new state discovered by ATLAS and CMS. The collider physics community is trying to measure everything they can about this new particle. One of the “easiest” properties to measure is its mass, MH. (One of the more difficult is the CP Nature of the Higgs boson.) Values [...]

  • Fermilab's first physics slam a smash hit

    Updated: 2012-11-21 13:58:48
    On Friday night, Nov. 16, about 1000 people came out to Fermilab to see five physicists duke it out... with science. The occasion was the laboratory's first ever physics slam. A physics slam is kind of like a poetry slam—the five contestants were given 12 minutes each to explain a complex particle physics concept to an auditorium filled with laymen. And they had to do it in the most entertaining way they could, because audience applause determined the winner.

  • Components

    Updated: 2012-11-20 20:03:54
    Asymptotia Q Train Guy Components Published on November 20, 2012 in art craft design fun science science education sketches and work 0 Comments : Tags tedyouth Here’s the first slide of my TEDYouth talk from Saturday It was time consuming but fun to draw all those hands and tiny items of various sorts . The whole talk was about what I call hidden structures” , which in a sense is what my field high energy physics , particle physics , cosmology , string theory , etc . is all about . To help motivate it all , I started by talking about opening up your smart phone and figuring out how it works by taking it apart and discovering the components inside , and using the rules of how to put them together to deduce the structure of other things see that second stage of the slide being delivered on

  • Time-Reversal Violation Is Not the "Arrow of Time"

    Updated: 2012-11-20 18:01:50
    Looks like the good folks at the BaBar experiment at SLAC, feeling that my attention has been distracted by the Higgs boson, decided that they might be able to slip a pet peeve of mine past an unsuspecting public without drawing my ire. Not so fast, good folks at BaBar! They are good folks, actually, [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-20 17:04:08
    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 2012.11.20 Particles of the Day 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 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

  • A bouquet of options: Higgs factory ideas bloom

    Updated: 2012-11-20 16:38:20
    If you hurl two oranges together at close to the speed of light, there’s going to be a lot of pulp. But, somewhere in the gooey mess will be the rare splinters left over from two seeds colliding. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN works in a similar way. Protons, each made of quarks and gluons, collide and produce other particles. Roughly once every 5 billion proton collisions, everything aligns and a Higgs-like boson pops out.

  • Web Tour

    Updated: 2012-11-20 00:00:00
    Launch tour »

  • Arrow of time prefers to point forward

    Updated: 2012-11-19 18:00:00
    Time ceaselessly speeds onward in our everyday experience, never taking so much as half a step backward. Now, thanks to experimental results from the BaBar collaboration, researchers can be sure that the same is also true for single, isolated particles. Time is indeed asymmetric, even on exceedingly small scales.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:03:54
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:03:53
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • hep-ex 0703020 Evidence for D0-anti-D0 Mixing

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:03:53
    Cornell University Library We gratefully acknowledge supporting institutions arXiv.org hep-ex arXiv:hep-ex 0703020 Search or Article-id Help Advanced search All papers Titles Authors Abstracts Full text Help pages Full-text : links : Download PDF PostScript Other formats Current browse : context hep-ex next new recent 0703 References Citations INSPIRE HEP refers to cited by NASA ADS 2 blog links what is this Bookmark what is this High Energy Physics Experiment : Title Evidence for D0-anti-D0 Mixing : Authors The BABAR Collaboration B . Aubert et al Submitted on 12 Mar 2007 : Abstract We present evidence for D0-anti-D0 mixing in D0 K+pi- decays from 384 fb^{-1 of e+e- colliding-beam data recorded near sqrt(s 10.6 GeV with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings at SLAC . We find the

  • The CP Nature of the Higgs Boson

    Updated: 2012-11-18 16:48:15
    We are in the process of ascertaining the properties of the Higgs-like particle discovered by CMS and ATLAS last July 4th. It must be a boson because it decays to pairs of bosons. Since it decays to a pair of massless photons, it cannot be spin-1. The relative rates of decays to WW and ZZ [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-16 18:29:24
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Physics never sleeps

    Updated: 2012-11-16 00:00:00
    ATLAS Control Room, Meyrin, Switzerland   11:30 p.m., Nov. 4 It is half an hour into the night shift at the control room for the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector, and there is nothing to do. The LHC is not running. “We can’t do anything. We just have to wait,” says shift supervisor Adrian Vogel.

  • New particle-like structure confirmed at the LHC

    Updated: 2012-11-15 19:46:22
    Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed this week the existence of a particle-like structure first observed at the LHC’s predecessor, the Tevatron. Members of the CMS collaboration announced on Nov. 14 that they had spotted a curious object, dubbed Y(4140), that the CDF experiment had detected in March 2009. “We don’t know what it is,” says Vincenzo Chiochia, co-convener of the B physics group for CMS. “We observe a structure consistent with previous observations from the Tevatron.”

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 18:23:58
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 18:23:56
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 18:23:56
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-15 18:23:55
    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 2012.11.14 Mixing it up 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 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

  • Shindig!

    Updated: 2012-11-15 16:47:38
    This afternoon, 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific, is the fun event I mentioned before: a “virtual book tour” discussion on a new-ish platform called Shindig. The idea is that I sit here with my webcam, talking to you and showing some pictures; you sit where you are, with your own webcam, as a potentially-participatory audience member. You [...]

  • Time and Space, Remapped

    Updated: 2012-11-14 22:47:47
    A short two-person dance, with a twist. Or more accurately, a shear: time is remapped so that there is a delay that increases as you move from the top of the frame down to the bottom. Or in math: (x’, y’, t’) = (x, y, t – y), in some units. Via Terence Tao and [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-14 20:49:51
    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 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at 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: 2012-11-14 20:49:51
    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 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at 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: 2012-11-14 20:49:50
    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 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.11.02 A Dalitz What Now 2012.10.30 Zombies at 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

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

    Updated: 2012-11-14 12:47:17
    , The Hedgehog and the Fox From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search The Hedgehog and the Fox : An Essay on Tolstoy†s View of History Cover of 1993 Elephant paperback edition Author(s Isaiah Berlin Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Weidenfeld Nicolson Publication date 1953 Followed by The Proper Study of Mankind 1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin It was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public . Berlin himself said of the essay : I never meant it very seriously . I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game , but it was taken seriously . Every classification throws light on something . 1 Contents 1 Origins 2 Summary 3 Influence 4 Editions 5 See also 6 References 7 External links edit

  • CMS And ATLAS: Higgs To Tau Pairs!

    Updated: 2012-11-14 09:23:54
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  • Higgs: New ATLAS And CMS Results

    Updated: 2012-11-14 08:53:36
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  • Top Ten Amazing Higgs Boson Facts!

    Updated: 2012-11-13 18:53:15
    To celebrate the publication of The Particle at the End of the Universe, here’s a cheat sheet for you: mind-bending facts about the Higgs boson you can use to impress friends and prospective romantic entanglements. 1. It’s not the “God particle.” Sure, people call it the God particle, because that’s the name Leon Lederman attached [...]

  • How to make a neutrino beam

    Updated: 2012-11-13 15:30:33
    <div class="field-item even"Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, but they rarely interact with matter. Some of today’s outstanding scientific mysteries, such as why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe, could be solved by studying neutrinos and detecting their interactions with matter. Billions of neutrinos from natural sources, including the Sun, zip through every square centimeter of the Earth each second. Yet scientists cannot easily determine their initial type or exactly how far they traveled before reaching a detector.

  • A Book Full of Particles

    Updated: 2012-11-13 15:14:32
    Publication day! In case it’s slipped your mind, today is the day when The Particle at the End of the Universe officially goes on sale. Books get a bit of a boost if they climb up the Amazon rankings on the first day, so if you are so inclined, today would be the day to [...]

  • BOSS collaboration measures expansion of the universe 11 billion years ago

    Updated: 2012-11-13 00:00:00
    The universe is expanding, with every galaxy speeding away from all others at an ever-increasing rate. But it hasn’t always been that way. Eleven billion years ago, the speed of that expansion was beginning to slow as gravity pulled galaxies in toward one another. That was before dark energy came into play.

  • Passing along LHC know-how to future generations

    Updated: 2012-11-12 18:00:00
    The Large Hadron Collider is the product of generations of work. As time presses on, many LHC collaborators involved from the beginning have moved on to other projects, and memories of the decade of construction that produced the largest collider yet, along with its associated detectors, have begun to dim. This has implications for the LHC experiments, which are meant to run for years to come. The importance of passing along knowledge to newer collaboration members is already apparent with a major work period planned to take place during the long shutdown next year.

  • LHCb: Evidence For Rare Decay Bs To Dimuons

    Updated: 2012-11-12 16:26:04
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  • Bs to mumu Observed

    Updated: 2012-11-12 13:10:33
    The LHCb experiment has observed the rare decay Bs→μ+μ-. Br(Bs→μ+μ-) = (3.2+1.5-1.2)×10-9. This is the culmination of nearly 30 years of searching for this extremely rare decay (see yesterday’s blog post). The slides from Johannes Albrecht presented at the HCP conference give a nice overview of the measurement. These results come from 1 fb-1 at [...]

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-12 07:25:37
    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 2012.11.11 Foxes , hedgehogs and particle physicists 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 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

  • Dara O Briain School of Hard Sums

    Updated: 2012-11-11 16:50:46
    This is an actual TV show in the UK (based on a Japanese program), broadcast on a channel called Dave. In it, Dara O Briain and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, along with special comedy guests, take on math puzzles (and compete against school-aged math whizzes in the process). Watch at least the first segment, to [...]

  • Telescopes

    Updated: 2012-11-11 02:08:23
    Back home in the office/studio working on slides for the TEDYouth talk. Spent altogether too much time on telescopes today. Way too much. I estimate that this [...]

  • Watching for Bs to mu+mu-

    Updated: 2012-11-10 23:58:33
    On Tuesday, November 13th, Matteao Palutan representing the LHCb Collaboration will report new results on the search for the extremely rare decay Bs→μ+μ-. At tree level, this decay is forbidden in the standard model. It can occur through a loop diagram, however, involving a top quark and W bosons that are far, far off mass [...]

  • HCP2012

    Updated: 2012-11-09 17:09:00
    The Hadron Collider Physics Symposium will be next week in Kyoto, with announcements of new results from the LHC, some details of which are starting to trickle in. Chris Quigg explains what to look for here. The LHC has just … Continue reading →

  • Lead-proton collisions yield surprising effect in CMS experiment

    Updated: 2012-11-08 20:51:16
    <div class="field-item even"CMS physicists observed an unusual trend in the data they collected in September when they collided protons with lead ions instead of other protons. Particles produced in collisions tend to travel in opposite directions, but in one in roughly every 2 million collisions, the physicists saw particles travel in a common direction. Seemingly unrelated particles located apart from one another in the detector also had a tendency to travel in a common direction.

  • GFITTER Plots

    Updated: 2012-11-08 15:52:08
    I accidentally hit the link to GFITTER in my bookmarks file while having an early morning cup of coffee. So I looked at the plots there – they’re interesting. As most particle physicists know, GFITTER is a public computer program for calculating fits to the Standard Model based on precision measurements of electroweak observables. Such [...]

  • Social scientists: Far-flung physicists meet face-to-face

    Updated: 2012-11-07 18:00:00
    More than 300 scientists who study the sky in the high-powered light of gamma rays came together last week for five days of presentations, meetings and the chance to compare notes at the Fourth International Fermi Symposium. Acronyms flew thick and fast: SNR (supernova remnant), TGF (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) and AGN (active galactic nucleus) were only a few of the TLAs (three-letter acronyms) to be heard.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-07 15:14:02
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-07 15:13:56
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-07 15:13:55
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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

  • Hurrah!

    Updated: 2012-11-07 04:28:54
    A vote for reason. For science. For a little more equality. Thank goodness. -cvj

  • Publicity Machine Sputters Into Gear

    Updated: 2012-11-06 22:56:32
    Now that you’ve voted, I know what question you must be asking yourself: where can I go to hear Sean do things like relentlessly flogging his new book, The Particle at the End of the Universe, in stores November 13? Well you’ve certainly come to the right place. Here are some upcoming opportunities in various [...]

  • Bane-Romney Says Vote

    Updated: 2012-11-06 04:03:53
    This is the best election poster I've seen this cycle... Spotted near Sunset and Vine. [...]

  • Voyage to SNOLAB

    Updated: 2012-11-06 00:00:00
    In September, postdoc Hugh Lippincott prepared for a roadtrip that would take him and physicist Erik Ramberg northeast from their starting point near Chicago through Michigan and across the Canadian border. He stocked a cargo van they rented for the occasion with granola bars, apples and an iPod heavy on Pearl Jam. But this was no joyride. This was a practice run.

  • East Coasters brave Hurricane Sandy to keep neutrino project on schedule

    Updated: 2012-11-05 17:37:11
    Physicist Milind Diwan of Brookhaven National Laboratory has devoted much time and energy to neutrino research over the years, but perhaps never so literally as he did last week.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-04 22:03:50
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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:34
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:29:31
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:29:30
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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

  • HCP2012 Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2012

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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:28
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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:24
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:29:22
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:29:21
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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

  • BBC News Big Bang and religion mixed in Cern debate

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:20
    Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to local navigation Accessibility Help bbc.co.uk navigation News Sport Weather iPlayer TV Radio More Search : term Europe Home World UK England N . Ireland Scotland Wales Business Politics Health Education Sci Environment Technology Entertainment Arts Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East US Canada 15 October 2012 Last updated at 16:41 Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Big Bang and religion mixed in Cern debate By Victoria Gill BBC News The discovery of a Higgs-like particle preceded this religious and scientific meeting Continue reading the main story Related Stories Sacks : Dawkins' view anti-semitic Higgs-like particle discovered' What is the Higgs and why is it important Watch Some of Europe's

  • APS Physics DPF Division of Particles Fields

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:14
    American Physical Society Sites APS Journals PhysicsCentral Physics Become an APS Member Contact Us Division of Particles Fields Governance Newsletters Meetings APS Fellowship Prizes Awards Resources Email Print Share Division of Particles Fields The objective of the Division is the study of fundamental particles and fields , their structure , their interactions and interrelationships , the design and development of high energy accelerators , and the design and development of instrumentation techniques for high energy . physics News Community Planning Meetings starting Oct 2012 DPF Newsletter APS Multidivisional Neutrino Study A Joint Study on the Future of Neutrino Physics : The Neutrino Matrix Upcoming Meetings APS April Meeting 2013 April 13-16, 2013 2013 Meeting of the APS Division of

  • APS Physics APS Home

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:13
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  • To Be Young and in Search of the Higgs Boson New York Times

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:12
    Home Page Today's Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Most Recent Help Register Now Login Search All NYTimes.com Science COLLECTIONS PARTICLE To Be Young and in Search of the Higgs Boson By JAMES GLANZ Published : July 24, 2001 Sign In to E-Mail Print Single-Page Real estate in this resort town , which cascades down a mountainside a few miles northwest of Aspen , can run over 1,000 a square foot . Compare that with the roughly 6 billion , without furnishings , that senior physicists at a meeting here this month said they needed for a new machine to track down exotic particles weighing about the same as a single silver atom left in the ground from the region's hardscrabble mining . past But in physics as in real estate , rising prices can be most painful for the young community members .

  • Community Planning Meeting CPM2012 11-13 October 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:04
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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-11-03 23:29:01
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:28:59
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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: 2012-11-03 23:28:58
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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

  • DECAY

    Updated: 2012-11-03 07:25:28
    News Trailer posted on Gizmodo UK Wed 31. October By Decay Tweet The UK site of tech news blog Gizmodo has posted about our trailer with another positive review . The write-up includes the phrase pulse-racing” Check it out io9.com likes our trailer Mon 29. October By Decay Tweet Sci-fi website io9 has posted about the trailer and filed it under the category This Is Awesome” Editor-in-chief Annaleen also described it as Possibly the greatest thing ever” on her twitter Check out our trailer here or on YouTube Trailer Release Sat 27. October By Decay Tweet The official trailer for DECAY is now up Watch it in HD here or on YouTube with the bass turned up in a darkened room , and send us your comments Credits Media Press DECAY is a zombie film made and set at the LHC , by physics PhD students .

  • Fermi telescope gazes through fog to count the stars

    Updated: 2012-11-02 00:00:00
    Using data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has determined the density of stars in the universe: 1.4 stars per 100 billion cubic light-years. Counting all of the stars in the universe is no small task. To arrive at this number, the collaboration used a clever combination of measurements.

  • How to woo an audience, with help from Alan Alda

    Updated: 2012-11-01 17:00:00
    About 30 scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University threw caution—and, sometimes, their dignity—to the wind last week during a two-day science communication workshop sponsored by the Kavli Foundation.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-31 16:41:09
    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 2012.10.30 Zombies at CERN 2012.10.22 Are the Higgs Rumors True 2012.10.16 For the Higgs , No Theological Assistance Required 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

  • 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 [...]

  • Video: A synchrotron rescues an ancient warship

    Updated: 2012-10-31 00:00:00
    It’s a story of archeology, chemistry and physics coming together to preserve an artifact unlike any other—a story made possible by light sources, accelerator-based machines that produce exceptionally intense beams of X-rays. Nearly 500 years ago, the flagship of Henry VIII’s navy, the Mary Rose, sank outside of Portsmouth while maneuvering to engage the French fleet. Raised from the bottom of the Atlantic in 1985, the Mary Rose is now an important historical object.

  • 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.

  • Recent CMS Results

    Updated: 2012-10-26 15:35:23
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  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-10-25 01:54:05
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  • 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 [...]

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