First Snarky Puzzle Answers of 2012

First Snarky Puzzle Answers of 2012

Dec. 6, Spinning the Interaction Story: Spin 1 (1 of 3)Snarky puzzle Figure out how to represent any quaternion using 3D rotations and one complex number. BackgroundComplex numbers are critical in…
People Who Believe In Upper Limits...

People Who Believe In Upper Limits...

...and people who like sausages, should not ask how they are made. As a member of two large scientific collaborations (CDF and CMS), I enjoy the benefit of seeing lots of scientific publications that…
A Theory of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

A Theory of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

I was going to talk about neutrinos today, as the results of MiniBoone looking at how muon neutrinos mix into electron neutrinos had just been published earlier this week, and wanted to write about…
CiteAlert: a new form of Spam

CiteAlert: a new form of Spam

Elsevier is spamming my mailbox. You would not expect that from a large publishing company who makes money from publishing scientific papers, but that's what happens. I think I am not alone in…
solution to the universe

solution to the universe

in part disparate, and in part overlapping, or in exchange, I work on a model for fundamental physics and reality.  The model presents a tiered ternary of perspective and perspective exchange;…
A Limited Toy Model for Classical Gravity

A Limited Toy Model for Classical Gravity

Start the year off with a new toy model for gravity. It is a toy, so let's just play with it and see what we learn. Feel free in the comments section to vote if I should keep this toy or return it…
The Einstein Expansion Paradox

The Einstein Expansion Paradox

The universe expands. The galaxies, as they depart ever further from one another, are classically and even in Einstein’s special theory of relativity, described as dust particles: The universe as a…