The rumors of Higgs boson have been rampant since last week, John’s bump hunting and Tommaso’s notes at 2.1 Sigma excess at 140 to 160 Gev.
I think I’ll wait for the LHC data.
Of course, I don’t particular want Higgs to show up! I think there will be more interesting physics if the standard […]
One forgets the beauty of the fluids and the kinetic poetry they write.
Photo by Irene Muller in Germany. She also has awesome pictures of smoke and dancing drops, and ripples.
The pictures that I really like are the pictures where she shows things “happening” before they happen. Like ripples forming before the drop […]
This hubble map of dark matter distribution taken in 3D is really interesting.
The part that is new and most exciting is that there are patches of dark matter where there is no visible baryonic matter, and there are other patches where there is baryonic matter but no dark matter.
The normal matter collect collects […]
A lot of people have Dark Matter measurements as their pick for the Top Physics story of 2006. e.g., AIP Physicsbuzz. I beg to differ. I know its a clean experiment and the dark matter distribution is interesting to see; but I think to call it first “direct” observation of dark matter is going a […]
A young physicist, upon learning that he was denied tenure after six productive years, requested a meeting with the Provost for an explanation, and a possible appeal.
At the meeting, the Provost told the young physicist, “I’m sorry to tell you that the needs of the University have shifted somewhat, during the past six-years leading up […]
I think there was a press release in 2005 about this infrared subtraction, I didn’t buy it then and I am not buying it now. Essentially you look at the infrared from a sliver of a sky, then subtract out all the infrared given by the objects that you know and whatever is […]
This is the geek version of the Archimedes “Give me a place to stand and lever long enough and I will move the world” 220BC. Now I don’t feel like getting up, just give me the source code and I will move the earth whichever way you want it. Global warming? want me to move […]
I love libraries! In this day and age of “information at your fingertip” is making the whole experience of being in library, breathing the smell of books and a physical connection with the all the fascinating things to learn so extraordinarily rare.
I have a very fond memories of visiting NY Public libraries. I went there […]
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