Guess The Plot 4: Two Hypotheses

Guess The Plot 4: Two Hypotheses

Today's guess of the plot will be very poor of comments on my side, for reasons I will disclose in due time. Also, it is unfortunately a rather expert-only one, since it represents something that…
Ettore Majorana: The Mystery Might Be Solved

Ettore Majorana: The Mystery Might Be Solved

Ettore Majorana was maybe the most brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, and an outstanding physicist. He disappeared on March 25th 1938 at the age of 32 years, under mysterious circumstances and…
WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?

WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?

The expansion of the universe should slow as time marches on, some even conjectured it would slow and then collapse again - that's what all that mass and its gravity in the universe should do. But…
Collatz Conjecture: Decided Or Undecidable

Collatz Conjecture: Decided Or Undecidable

Undecidability is weird, much weirder than quantum theory, which is benign by comparison. Let me give a simple example for something that may well be undecidable: Take any natural number N. If it is…
Another Betting Offer

Another Betting Offer

I see people around very, very interested in what the CDF experiment has recently unearthed. I am talking, of course, of the jet-jet resonance candidate that they observe in their W+jets sample. A…
Young’s experiment, new revised

Young’s experiment, new revised

If a particle satisfies the minimum mandated by the uncertainty relation and is subject to no force, the fuzziness of its momentum causes the fuzziness of its position to increase, while the…
To Be Is To Be Measured (Part 2)

To Be Is To Be Measured (Part 2)

Last time I invited you to consider the following "game": Three "players" (Andy, Bob, and Charles) compete agains three "inter­roga­tors". Two things can happen: either all players are asked for the…