Category: Physics
We have need of physics beyond Standard Model …
| July 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
” … because the only SM is not sufficient to explain our universe” (at mass 125 GeV). more
God Particle: “Proof” now changed to “Evidence”
| July 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“This may be the first time in history that a media headline about particle physics is incorrectly pessimistic … ” more
Breaking: God particle “all but proven” to exist – not yet discovery though
| July 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
This is a leak. Announcement was supposed to be Friday. more
Fri nite frite: You think you know hot from not? Consider the Big Bang soup
| June 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
RHIC’s physicists were seeking to duplicate the conditions that existed just an instant after the big bang that kicked off the universe’s expansion 13.7 billion years ago. (when gluons come unglued). more
Coffee!! When nerds go nuts, they spend hours studying falling slinkies
| June 20, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
The bottom is temporarily motionless when falling off a tall building. more
Big Bang: Were we wrong about the cosmic microwave background?
| June 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
But if it turns out to be bad news, it is bad news in the real world. At least it is not frustrating, science-stopping nonsense about multiverses. more
Standard Model of physics in trouble?
| June 18, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Or is it just a slow news day in June? more
Physicists attack philosophy when they are no longer doing good physics
| June 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy, Physics |
Multiverse, etc., proponents rattle on against philosophy – principally because philosophers can easily see through their pretenses by simple acts of logic. more
Freedom or determinism: Thought experiment in producing unlimited randomness
| May 19, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“The scientists’ calculations showed that the quantum correlation between the bits can be so strong that they cannot be correlated with anything existing previously.” more
Mathematician Granville Sewell denied right to respond to rebuttals in journal
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Peer review, Physics |
Once again, Darwinism’s questionable relationship to thermodynamics is the issue. more
Memo to social sciences: Get over your physics envy. Please.
| April 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Physics |
” Social scientists would be better off doing what they do best: thinking deeply about what prompts human beings to behave the way they do.” more
Would Wolfgang Pauli have liked the Biologic Institute?
| April 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Physics |
“He had heard these arguments before and wasn’t convinced by them. Pauli wanted to see calculated probabilities for large-scale evolution.” more
Faster-than-light neutrinos: They won the race-to-publish, but …
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
“I think they were a little bit in a hurry to publish something that was astonishing, and at the end of the day it was a wrong measurement.” more
Higgs boson’s existence stands at 2.2 sigmas, but 3 sigmas is needed for it to be considered a new particle
| March 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
“None of the hints announced so far from the Tevatron or LHC experiments, however, are strong enough to claim evidence for the Higgs boson.” more
Dark matter is not behaving as predicted
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
But they should have known better than to predict just how dark matter would behave. more
New evidence on how the early universe survived: Why matter prevails over antimatter
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Not proven to 5 sigma standards (less than one in a million chance of a fluke) but definitely worth pursuing. more
Neutrinos faster than light? Or faster than their competitors in the Big Science cash grab?
| February 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
“The nagging feeling is that they may have already known about this error, but ignored it because of the increase in attention and funding it provided.” more
Einstein is safe – for now: Neutrinos may not be faster than light
| February 23, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“Just as it would have been unwise to jump to the conclusion that the initial results were the result of an anomaly, it would be unwise to make any assumptions now. ” more
“string theory, while dazzling, has outrun any conceivable experiment that could verify it”
| February 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“Yet, like some outsiders, string theorists labor away year after year, happily unencumbered by reality.” more
Hidden within Maxwell’s equations is the speed of light …
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
” … they still blow me away and show how ordered the universe is, even down to light.” more
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