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From the Great Wall to the Great Collider
Video bonus: Nima's talk about the collider project (Breakthrough Symposium) I received a copy of this beautiful book by Shing-Tung Yau and Ste…
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First CMS paper based on LHC data
You may remember that the first paper that used the new LHC data was written by the ALICE Collaboration . However, let's admit that it is ATLAS a…
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Electron's electric quadrupole moment
If you think something is badly wrong with the title, we're on the same frequency I've answered over 1,000 questions at Physics Stack Exchan…
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Alexander Unzicker: The Higgs Fake
While browsing random websites, I was offered an ad promoting a new book by an author we already know well. It's no one else than Germany's a…
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SUSY and extra dimensions together are more compatible with LHC data
In the morning, I read the daily papers on the arXiv and exactly one paper stayed open in my browser: Auto-Concealment of Supersymmetry in Extra Dime…
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CERN beats German LHC alarmists
It should be a trivial news that doesn't require any report except that in this crazy world, it does. ;-) Court saves the LHC from Otto Rössler e…
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LHC Higgs: does it deviate from the Standard Model too much?
A textbook pedagogic exercise on chi-squared distributions On the 2012 Independence Day, the world of physics has made a transition. The question &qu…
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The world as seen by the LHC protons
Off-topic paragraph: Today, we celebrate 370 years from the birth of Isaac Newton , arguably the brightest scientist ever. He was born on January 4t…
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LHC is running
A rather large group of phenomenologists at Harvard, led by Nima Arkani-Hamed, spends one hour every Wednesday by analyzing the data from the LHC. To…
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Falsifying non-local realism
Preprint for this blog entry: An experimental test of non-local realism Off-topic: Seed magazine offers a tool ( PDF ) for living in the 21st cent…
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CERN sends muon neutrinos, Gran Sasso detected one tau neutrino
For three years or so, a gadget at CERN has been sending muon neutrinos to Gran Sasso which is 730 km away. No, the source of the muon neutrinos has …
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Antiprotons obey CPT within 5 ppm
Just a neutrino link: Two weeks ago, MiniBooNE reported some results that seem to conflict with the standard model of 3-flavor neutrino oscillation…
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Potential mistakes in the Opera research
Almost all theoretical oriented physicists including myself seem to feel almost certain that there is a mistake in the Opera paper (previously discu…
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