Tag: physics
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Matter into antimatter and vice-versa…
A particle with an identity crisis could provide the next big discovery at the world’s largest particle accelerator. Researchers report online March 5 in Physical Review Letters that the D meson has been caught in the act of flipping between matter and antimatter. (1) Change is shirfing between states. What happens if you constantly change from one…
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Quantum mechanics, Interpretations, Subjectivity
Quantum mechanics is a weird thing. Something like the last frontier of Science, it poses extreme questions which make us wonder about fundamental issues – like the role of measurement in what we see happening. It goes to the hear of the biggest problems of existence – i.e. what is a particle, what is mass…
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WIMP, Dark Matter, scientific delusions…
The unknown is starting to take shape. The nameless gets named. WIMP is the name you will hear more often in the future when Dark Matter is analyzed… And rest assured that someday there will be experiments that will “find” it… Because when you look for something you always find it… ALWAYS. After all, after…
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Opera experiment: Things DO travel faster than light, what’s the big deal?
Scope A lot have been said for the OPERA experiment. It is now common understanding that a fault in the measuring equipment resulted in the neutrinos measured faster than light. The site http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/neutrinos/neutrinos-faster-than-light/opera-what-went-wrong/ is the main source of information concerning that problem. However there are some unanswerd questions still hovering in the air… This is an…
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Higgs research is published and reveals more dogmatism than one would expect…
The paper related to the “discovery” of the Higgs boson was finally published and is freely available here. The paper gives us insight into how scientists today think. The title is: “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”. We are initially baffled by the question:…
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