The Best Top Mass Measurement Ever!

The Best Top Mass Measurement Ever!

It makes me very happy when I see new precise results on the mass of the top quark being produced by the CDF collaboration (to which I still proudly belong). CDF, one of the two hadron collider…
Cold Fusion Press Conference Video: ACS 2010

Cold Fusion Press Conference Video: ACS 2010

The American Chemical Society's Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition includes numerous research findings in the field of cold fusion, also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Here is…
Blocking temperature

Blocking temperature

Blocking Temperature 1. Superparamagnetism For ferromagnetic or ferromagnetic materials, with small enough nanoparticles their magnetization becomes thermally fluctuated. When the time between two…
Cold Fusion is Back!

Cold Fusion is Back!

The very term 'cold fusion' will send shudders through those who know even part of this sad story. In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room…
Quasicrystals

Quasicrystals

Quasicrysstals What is quasicrystal? I have it in mind that quasicrystal is the crystal with 5-fold symmetry, from the course of crystallography. It is well know that according to translational…
Higgs Mass Limits: 130-210 GeV !!

Higgs Mass Limits: 130-210 GeV !!

A brand new result in Higgs boson physics has been presented by my old-time CDF colleague Wei-Ming Yao at the Moriond QCD conference two days ago. It is the combination of CDF and DZERO limits on the…
Worlds in Collision - Run Your Own Solar System

Worlds in Collision - Run Your Own Solar System

In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky published his bestselling Worlds in Collision, where he proposed that Venus was once a satellite of Jupiter that went AWOL and caused catastrophes on Earth as it flew past…
Frequencies of Disasters

Frequencies of Disasters

How to explain resonance to a non-scientist? A few years back I heard a guest speaker on BBC Radio 4 trying to explain the resonance effects of pulsed microwave radiation on the brain in contrast to…
Two Jets, Two Protons, Nothing Else

Two Jets, Two Protons, Nothing Else

I was delighted to receive news this afternoon of three new interesting results produced by the DZERO collaboration in the analysis of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. QCD, the theory of…