Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year celebration. Things in the physics/astrophysics/astronomy world didn't take a break for the new year, especially with...
OK, after a 2-week break, I hope you all have recharged your brains and ready to tackle our first vexer of the year! A quick glance at one of our polls...
It appears that the deviation from The Standard Model for the muon g- 2 value has been reconfirmed today with the recent announcement at Brookhaven... ...
He He He... Last night before I went home, one member of that collaboration here at LBL (who happens to be directly across the hall from me) came into my ...
I didn't start reading this article unbiased. I'm in the camp of Osborne. An effort should be made, even if it is a "long hard slog", to make physics as...
A very interesting and *important* topic. I suppose my own short take on this subject is that science education should be tailored to the student as much as...
I have a question for you guys: Are there other important deviations from the Standard Model out there in the world of experimental physics? What would you...
Very interesting points made thus far by everyone. Being still quite a young man who finished highschool not so long ago (I'm 19), I think I can add some of my...
Obviously, the holiday season is longer than I expected. There weren't many attempts at answering this week's vexer, which surprises me since our polls...
This vexer is tedious, but not difficult. Try it! A bunch of Undernetphysics members were making a field trip by train going from Maxwellville to Quantumshire....
... deviations ... Howdy David, I can think off two experimental observations that are outside of the predictions of the Standard Model: neutrino mass, and CP...
One of the things that I find lacking in this group is a more balanced coverage of physics-related news and reports from various parts of the world. Being in...
Hi Underneters, There is currently a major heavy ions physics conference called Quark Matter going on in Oakland, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area) ...
... Hi David and Zz, Good question. I think Zz nailed it: Neutrino mass is outside the Standard Model and has been experimentally confirmed. But I'm pretty...
... outside the ... into it. ... violation. ... (especially ... Tom, You're correct. I forgot that it is the CPT symmetry that is supposed to be conserved in...
As a followup to the link I gave earlier on the survey of physics understanding in South Africa, the current issue of Physics Today (Jan, 2004) has a report on...
Nature has published a paper on the possible discovery of a new state of matter - a supersolid.[1] A supersolid is like a superfluid - a liquid that flows...
Hmmm, interesting stuff. This raises the thought in my mind that I am a "first principles" kind of guy -- in the words of Ayn Rand, I find it beneficial to...
Hi David, As usual, you are asking all the right questions. I won't claim to have all the answers, but perhaps I can provide some of my viewpoints that may ...
In the Feb. 2004 issue of the American Journal of Physics, there is an article, or rather a compilation, of the 100 "pop-science" books that von Baeyer and...
Having read 3 very good comments on this topic, I agree with every one of them (and I'm not even running for a political office!). My take on this is that...
OK, so I said that this vexer was tedious, but it wasn't THAT tedious! :) ... train ... The distance from Maxwellville to Quantumshire must be 200 miles. The...
There are no tricks in this vexer. It requires you to look at the figure on the main page of our website. In that figure, the rectangle at the corner measures...
I recently attended the convention in Oakland for experimetal physica by world organizations on Quark Au-Au collision analysis and other research along those...
I agree you don't want people with little interest in science getting science degrees just because they want to be a part of a group OR because they are...
I agree on a mixed approach... after all you never know from what economic background the child may be that develops an interest in physics. If they are from a...
Hey Zapper et al, I've been putting a little thought into the discussion we had (almost 2 months ago) about whether the wavefunction is "real." Let me see if I...
Hey guys, I want to see if I can make my set-of-paths terminology a little more clear, by making an analogy. Let's say that we have two jars; each jar is...
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