Holiday Card, 2012

Holiday Card, 2012

My 20+ year tradition of a physics inspired holiday card continues.  My friends like them, even if they are not understood :-) Accompanying text: Hello, hello: The card features a mockup of…
Quantum Entanglement: A Third Entangled Particle?

Quantum Entanglement: A Third Entangled Particle?

Quantum entanglement is a central principle of quantum physics - the science of sub-atomic particles. Multiple particles, such as photons, are connected with each other even when they are very far…
Splitting Black Holes - Take 2

Splitting Black Holes - Take 2

So, is it or is it not possible? Can black holes be split? In my last blog I demonstrated that the laws of thermodynamics forbid the splitting of a single black hole. However, I also demonstrated…
ATLAS Higgs Results: One Or Two Higgs ?

ATLAS Higgs Results: One Or Two Higgs ?

UPDATE: for more on this, I only now realize that my friend at Resonaances had written about it yesterday... It is nice to see that he agrees with my conclusions, anyway. Also Peter has news on it,…
Correlation, Causation, Independence

Correlation, Causation, Independence

This is a post about basics. That's because I think a point needs to be made which is surprisingly not as well-known as its elementary nature would have you guess. Correlation -in its most used…
Should Spokespersons Keep The Money ?

Should Spokespersons Keep The Money ?

The news of the prizes to theorists and experimentalists are going to receive million-dollar prizes ($3M and $1M, details everywhere else -but see Peter's blog for insightful comment and discussion)…
On Combining Probabilities And A-Posterioriness

On Combining Probabilities And A-Posterioriness

In High-Energy Physics the small p-value of an observation may be the first hint of a discovery about to be made. Here by p-value I just mean the probability, just to be fancy (or brief). Because we…
How To Split Black Holes

How To Split Black Holes

Ask a physicist how to split a black hole, and you will receive the reply "That's impossible". Ask for further clarification, and you will get a lecture on black hole thermodynamics. The argument…