Each January, I scamper out of the basement and talk to folks during MIT's Independent Activities Period. The Alumni Association is the sponsor (no one from the physics or math department is inviting…

This morning I woke up at 6AM, had a shower and breakfast, dressed up, and rushed out in the cold of the fading night to catch a train to Mestre, where my car was parked. From there I drove due north…

In 1973, during a symposium to celebrate the 500th birthday of Copernicus, Brandon Carter, a post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, tweaked his audience by stating…

The CMS Collaboration at the LHC collider has recently measured a non-negligible rate for the fraction of Higgs boson decays into muon-tau pairs, as I reported in this article last summer. The…

There is no more important universal problem in the Standard Model of elementary particles than the problem of mass and mixing flavor hierarchies. The mainstream theoretical approach for treating it…

Just a placeholder and another H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 Just regular text A link V(\mathbf{x})=-\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{G\rho (\mathbf{r})}{\left|\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{r} \right|}dv(\mathbf{r}) V(\mathbf{x…

Neutrinos almost never interact, 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your hand every second but fewer than one actually makes contact with any of the atoms inside us.  When neutrinos do…

Theories of everything in Physics by their nature need to be theories of almost anything. How can we call a theory which is so hard to test we can't test it, right now, science? George Ellis and Joe…

Apologizing for the silence of last week, due not so much to Christmas holidays but to my working around the clock to write a grant proposal, I wish to show you today a graph which describes very…

Frozen cold but not the way beyond absolute zero. Flickr/kriimurohelisedsilmad , CC BY-NC-SA By Tapio Simula, Monash University Absolute zero is the temperature (-273.15C) at which all motion in…