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LinkedIn2012 was an unusual year for physics. It was, then wasn't, and then again was, the year that the God particle, the Higgs boson, the particle responsible for mass in the quantum mechanical zoo of particles, was found. Or was it? The problem was, or rather is, that CERN's large hadron collider found something, this much is true, and it moreover found something that looks like the Higgs. But the problem is, what it found isn't behaving exactly like the model predicted: The Higgs Fiasco and the Electric Sun [ w/ videos] As the article notes, the problem is that whatever it is that … [Read more...]
US AND IRANIAN RESEARCH GROUPS ANNOUNCE NUCLEAR COOPERATION AGREEMENT
August 3, 2012 By
Yes, you read that correctly. And though this is not a recent story (it is two months' old this very day), it nevertheless intrigued me, and I think you'll see why at the end of this blog. But here, in a nutshell, is the story: a US firm, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, and an Iranian university, the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, have signed an agreement to cooperate in research and publishing of papers on aneutronic fusion processes and technologies: International collaboration established to speed science What interested me here was not simply the US Treasury Department's … [Read more...]