Microwave Synthesis And Ramen Noodles

Microwave Synthesis And Ramen Noodles

Microwaves are a low frequency light, at least compared to visible light, say, or ionizing radiation like gamma rays. Thus, microwaves are quite harmless. A microwave oven baths the food in an…
The First ZZ Event In CMS!!

The First ZZ Event In CMS!!

As beautiful as they get, or even more so. It is hard to express the beauty of the event that the CMS collaboration published today. CMS, which stands for "compact muon solenoid", is one of the two…
Quantum Hexodynamics

Quantum Hexodynamics

Special Guest Post From A Far Boundary Of Our Universe By Richard P. Flatman "I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are…
Over 40 Inverse Picobarns Delivered By LHC!

Over 40 Inverse Picobarns Delivered By LHC!

News from the LHC: the integrated proton-proton luminosity at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy has generously passed the mark of 40 inverse picobarns yesterday. The CMS experiment alone has integrated…
Physical Reality: Less Is More

Physical Reality: Less Is More

Physical reality is composed of properties like distance, duration, velocity, area, volume, mass, energy, and temperature. To quantify these properties you need to measure them. And the act of…
Electron Scattering And The Proton Structure

Electron Scattering And The Proton Structure

Week number one of my course on Subnuclear Gauge Physics is over. I think that in the first five hours of lesson I have given to my students a reasonable picture of the early experimental attempts…