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Category Archives: Particles
Book Review: “The Higgs Fake: How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee”
I’m painfully aware of abundant serious problems in physics of the largest phenomena, meaning “Standard” Cosmology-astrophysics (Big Bang/LCDM). Those include definitional and procedural problems, along with fundamental substantive errors and logical flaws likely created and nurtured by serious cognitive biases. … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Book Review, Conjectures OverInterpreting Data, Education, Models, Particles, Philosophy
Tagged Alexander Unzicker, Book Review, CERN, Credibility, Higgs Boson, Higgs Fake, Higgs mechanism, Particle physics, Particle physics problems, Physics Secret, Scientific American, Standard mode
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Closing in on Higgs Boson Certainty, But “Standard Model Higgs” Remains Distant
A Higgs Boson? – Likely “The preliminary results with the full 2012 data set are magnificent and to me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson though we still have a long way to go to … Continue reading
Why Don’t Three Quarks Add Up to One Proton? (and its not even close)
You’ve probably heard a thousand times that a Proton is made up of three Quarks: Two Up-Quarks and one Down-Quark. Right? So lets just take a quick look to see how they add up. OK – an Up Quark weighs … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Education, Fun, Particles
Tagged Adrian Cho, CERN, DESY, Particle Standard Model, Prof Strassler, Quark
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“We don’t know if its a Higgs boson” – yet Theorists rush to claim new physics ground
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1) Q: What’s the difference between a religious fanatic and an extreme … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged Gold Rush Prospectors, Higgs, Higgs Rush, Hugs Bison, Mark Twain, New Particle
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Did CERN Find a Higgs ? Well not quite. But they probably found a New Particle ! and extended their funding for years
You might have seen the New York Times Headline on July 4th “Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe” “I think we have it” said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN. While CERN’s spokespeople were reasonably tentative … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged ATLAS, CERN, CMS, decays, Higgs, Higgs Boson, Higgs-like, Joe Incandela, New Particle, Standard Model, ZZ decay, ZZ Top
11 Comments
Will a Higgs Boson Discovery be Announced in July?
Today I ran across lots of excited rumors on Particle Physics websites that a Higgs boson might be announced at the upcoming International Conference on High Energy Physics in Australia. (The Higgs Boson is a never-observed particle that allegedly “give … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Astrophysics, Fun, Particles
Tagged Higgs Field, Matt Strassler, Particle physics
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CERN’s Neutrinos – Now Obeying Speed Limit
Its official – no “Faster than Light” Neutrinos at CERN. CERN (not OPERA) Research Director Sergio Bertolucci announced yesterday at a Japanese conference that they have re-run the Neutrino experiments on four different machines and all neutrinos seem to be … Continue reading
Electron No Longer a Fundamental Particle ?
Amazing news: Researchers in Switzerland have separated an Electron into two smaller quasi-particles – a “Spinon” and an “Orbiton;” meaning they have physically separated the spin and the orbit properties of an Electron. Until now, standard physics generally accepted that … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged Electron, Fundamental particle, Holon, Matthew Fisher, Orbitron, Spinon, strontium cuprate, Thorsten Schmitt
25 Comments
Must Faster-than Light Neutrinos Cause Cerenkov Radiation?
A recent criticism of the apparently Faster-than-light (FTL) Neutrinos inspiring a lot of discussion is the claim that if Neutrinos are going FTL – they must cause Cherenkov radiation. Why? That doesn’t make sense. And its never been observed so … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged Cherenkov Radiation, Electron, Matt Strassler, Neutrinos, OPERA
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Not Sure about Uncertainty ;-)
I’m Not Sure about the Uncertainty Principle (c) Copyright 2011-2017 David Dilworth It is difficult to test the flavor of an apple without biting it or taking some sample out of it. You or I can test or measure its … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged Destructive Testing, Seeing Underwater, SONAR, Uncertainty Principle
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Faster than Light Concern – Detecting Only 1 Neutrino per Hour
Regarding the potentially Faster than light Neutrinos, it is vital to realize that only about one (1) Neutrino is detected by Italy’s OPERA every hour; that’s one Neutrino per hour. Compare that to how every square centimeter on Earth (facing … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
Tagged CERN, Faster than light, Italy, Neutrinos, o, SPS, Super Proton Synchrotron
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How Are Neutrino Flavors Different ? Maybe There Is Only Vanilla . . .
Neutrinos are fundamental particles, more closely related to Electrons than Neutrons because they are not made up of smaller particles (Neutrons are made up of 3 Quarks). Here are some odd things about Neutrinos. 1. All three flavors (types) of … Continue reading
Landmark: Neutrinos Seem to Break Light Speed Limit – Superluminal Motion Found in 2nd Experiment
Update: Added Glossary and Links to: the original paper, video talk, OPERA website; and step by step explanation of experiment details. While working on another problem, a team of physics researchers at CERN and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Experiments, Particles
Tagged Causality Violation, CERN, General Relativity, Gran Sasso Laboratory, Italy, Neutrino, OPERA, Pions, Special Relativity, Superluminal, Tau-Leptons
14 Comments
Elusive Dark Matter Idea Evaporating
NewScientist reports that “NASA’s FERMI satellite has confirmed a previous hint that there is more antimatter than expected coming from space. The bad news is that the result strongly almost certainly rules out Dark Matter as the source.”
Posted in Basic Science, Big Bang Models, Dark, Dark Matter, Experiments, Models, News, Particles, UnObserved
Tagged DAMA, Dark Matter, galaxy rotation, Gran Sasso
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Higgs Boson – Imaginary Particle Remains Science Fiction – Big Bang Weakens Further
The voice you hear getting louder is Brünnhilde practicing Götterdämmerung. Thats because the search is all but over for “the most sought-after particle in modern physics” – the Higgs Boson. Update: In March 2013, while there are a few loose … Continue reading
Inverse Femtobarns – Measuring Collider Effectiveness
Here’s a fun article on possible identification of a new particle. Update (July 2011): Unfortunately, this exciting potential evaporated under more rigorous scrutiny. But, that’s exactly the way science is supposed to work. We are supposed to abandon even our … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Science, Particles
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