Poster Session At ICNFP 2016
I am spending a week in Kolimbari, a nice seaside place in western Crete. Here the fifth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics is being held in the Orthodox Academy of Crete. The...
View ArticleSpace From Hilbert Space: A Popular Overview.
The concept origin of space-time itself as a emergent property of a collection of fundamentally quantum systems without a notion of space-time is not new. When this is done usually certain...
View ArticleWill Astronauts Need To Augment Lunar Gravity? If So, How?
We might get our first humans living long term on the Moon by the 2020s. How will they cope with lunar gravity, and will it need to be augmented, and if so, how? There is a lot written about artificial...
View ArticleCan An Unstable Vacuum Drive The Expansion Of The Universe?
Is the expansion of the Universe a natural effect due to the internal dynamical properties of the physical vacuum? Can one rule out the possibility that the vacuum is unstable (or metastable) and...
View ArticleHow Much Light Does A Proton Contain ?
Gavin Salam's talk at the "Altarelli Memorial" session of the ICNFP 2016 conference, which is presently taking place in Kolimbari (Crete), was very interesting and I wish to report here about it. read...
View ArticleMind The (Risk Perception) Gap On BPA
It is commonly perceived that natural chemicals are safe while manmade substances may be harmful. These perceptions, however, if not supported by scientific evidence, can result in risk perception...
View ArticleQuantum Mechanics Started with Semi-Empirical Phenomenology – Important Lesson
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View ArticleBook News And A Clip
My book "Anomaly! - Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab" is slowly getting its finishing touches, as the second round of proofreading draws to a close. The book is scheduled to...
View ArticleLUX Dark Matter Experiment Ends With No WIMPs Found
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its search...
View ArticleOdds of Intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets : NOT Great.
According to new work published recently the TRAPPIST-1 planets could have an atmosphere hospitable to life as we know it. Could that life be intelligent and technological if it is there? Sadly, that...
View ArticleThe Daily Physics Problem - 1
Today I wish to start a series of posts that are supposed to help my younger colleagues who will, in two months from now, compete for a position as INFN research scientists. The INFN has opened 73 new...
View ArticleWhy A Planet Can't Hide Behind The Sun Or Above The South Pole
This is another of my articles to help the many people who come to my science blog saying how scared they are of a planet, which they think is hidden behind the sun and is about to fly past or hit...
View ArticleThe Daily Physics Problem - 2
As explained in the previous installment of this series, these questions are a warm-up for my younger colleagues, who will in two months have to pass a tough exam to become INFN researchers.By the way,...
View ArticleThe Daily Physics Problem - 3
As explained in the previous installment of this series, these questions are a warm-up for my younger colleagues, who will in two months have to pass a tough exam to become INFN researchers.A...
View ArticleThe Daily Physics Problem - 4
As explained in the previous installment of this series, these questions are a warm-up for my younger colleagues, who will in two months have to pass a tough exam to become INFN researchers.A...
View ArticleThe Daily Physics Problem - 5
As explained in the first installment of this series, these questions are a warm-up for my younger colleagues, who will in two months have to pass a tough exam to become INFN researchers.A disclaimer...
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Toxins In E-Cigarette Vapor Increase With Heat And Frequency Of Use
Electronic cigarettes have grown in popularity as an alternative to traditional cigarette smoking - the idea is that since they are just nicotine vapor, users will not be placed in peril by the 200...
View ArticleApollo Astronauts And Cardiovascular-Related Deaths
Cardiovascular disease affects around 46 percent of men and 48 percent of women but scholars in Florida are concerned that Apollo astronauts have died from related diseases 43 percent of the time. Why...
View ArticleThe World Is NOT Ending Today! AWFUL "Silly Season" Story In Telegraph
This is just AWFUL - the worst case of irresponsible journalism I have ever seen. An article in the Telegraph, of all places, it publishes an actual "Count down timer" saying we are all going to die a...
View ArticleGeometric Contrast of Quark and Neutrino Mixing Hierarchies
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