Category: Physics
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
Turning up the power at the Large Hadron Collider, in last ditch effort to find God particle
| February 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
They’re just not satisfied with a God who isn’t there. 
Why science can’t study the supernatural – A physicist’s view
| February 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Physics, Spirituality |
Inasmuch as the paranormal and spiritism are “personal”, possessing the characteristics of contingent personality, then it is dangerous to study them as a machine. more
Nature Physics Insight: Issue on Complexity, Order, and Chaos – free access!
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“Our children no longer want to become physicists and astronauts. They want to invent the next Facebook instead.” more
Bird’s eye quantum states last longer than artificial systems
| January 3, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“Although the two electrons are separated, their spins are linked through quantum entanglement.” more
“Higgs bosons regularly pop into existence all over space”
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Yet the little devils are explicitly avoiding the Large Hadron Collider … hmmm … more
Theistic evolutionist: Why we ought to believe in the Higgs boson even though we don’t have evidence
| December 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News, Physics |
In other words, its power to explain is seen as an indicator of its truth. more
There may be some evidence for the Higgs boson after all
| December 14, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Glad they’re being suitably cautious; we’ll keep watching. more
No Higgs boson? Well, what about Higgsinos or techniquarks …
| December 2, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Nature knows the answer at the moment, and we’re trying to find out at last what it is. more
Neutrinos may be faster than light, but published papers on them are not
| October 27, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“In some cases it takes months, sometimes up to a year, to verify that everyone in the collaboration is happy.” more
Einstein’s time vs.quantum time
| October 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
“This effect has been precisely verified in classical experiments, but not in conjunction with quantum effects, which is the aim of the newly proposed experiment. ” more
Faster-than-light neutrinos: Hey, not so fast
| October 21, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
“If the Cohen–Glashow effect is a valid prediction, “neutrinos are not superluminal” more
After big faster-than-light neutrino meet: “For the moment, there is no explanation that works”
| October 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
Even a meeting of elite minds at Europe’s top particle physics lab couldn’t do it. more
Higgs boson: Find it in one year or bust, top physicists say
| October 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
So it will be really interesting to see is whether, in a year or so, some sources are rewriting history to show that they never really thought there was a Higgs boson. more
Some proposed new answers for those faster-than-light neutrinos
| October 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
It hasn’t been a more fun time to be a theoretical physicist in a century, we’re betting. more
Applying quantum thinking to biology
| October 4, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Quantum mechanics may explain some hard-to-explain facts about life. more
Skeptical mathematician Peter Woit on the faster-than-light neutrinos …
| October 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
Whatever would we do without real skeptics (who generally don’t set much store by belonging to “Skeptical Societies”) more
A series of vintage interviews with famous, semi-famous or interesting physicists past and present.
| October 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives more
Thinking up ways to test that quantum cat
| October 1, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Ball hopes Darwin will solve the problem.
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Imagine a universe where Einstein could be wrong, …
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong. more