The ATLAS group at CERN claims to see a ‘hint’ of Higgs in their event statistics around energies of 125 GeV. As fields and particles are viewed as complementary, why does the Higgs Field get little mention. Does the term … Continue reading
The Guest Editorial by Brian Greene in New Scientist is a pretentious peroration in favour of ‘nothing’ – of beliefs that space is empty – and shows the poverty of reductionist physics. He’s wrong that Isaac Newton saw space as empty, … Continue reading
New FtL experiment to use nanosecond pulses The previous experiment with microsecond pulses (1000ns) that measured the average delay time at ~60ns was very dependent on the statistical analysis and sensitive to detection bias (later detections being slightly less probable than … Continue reading
CERN theorists seem baffled, but it’s no surprise that standard physics predicts supraluminal (FtL) neutrinos to slow down via Cherenkov radiation analogous to FtL charged particles, although Cohen & Glashow call it bremstrahlung of electron-positron pairs. Cherenkov radiation is best depicted by analogy with … Continue reading
Do we laugh – physicists are often making grandiose claims of fundamental discoveries ? Or talk it down as the normal progress of science, stretching the boundaries to establish a more comprehensive theory? Revolutionary theories build on one another, says … Continue reading
LHC results put supersymmetry theory ‘on the spot’ – Pallab Ghosh – BBC 27 August 2011 Researchers failed to find evidence of so-called “supersymmetric” particles, which many physicists had hoped would plug holes in the current theory. Theorists admit they may have … Continue reading
New Scientist writer, Amanda Gefter is in deep trouble, endorsing a ‘theory’ in which observers can’t agree on measurements made in space-time. It breaches the fundamental principle of a universe independent of observers. Secondly it breaches causality – space and … Continue reading
