With the approach of Summer conferences -most notably, ICHEP, which alone has set a make-or-die deadline for the LHC experiments- physicists in ATLAS and CMS are frantically producing their results…

This G is with us since last centuries. Of course, it is Newton gravitation constant. Traditionally it is written using a capital G, and yes! it is a big G!But this one, every universal constant in…

Two days ago I discussed at ICFP 2012 the most recent results of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In the allotted time of my talk I could only cover few analyses, and I obviously…

Everyone's introduction to quaternions always has the same math one-liner: This blog will dive into an issue that has bothered me for years, namely that the line assume the only coordinate system…

The International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICFP) 2012 started today with a rich program of experimental and theory talks. I should be swimming in the Cretan sea in front of the nice…

The island of Crete, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, is home to ICFP 2012, a conference in high-energy physics. I arrived yesterday night and this morning I woke up with a gorgeous view of…

Last Transit of Venus was more fruitful than could be expected. Thousands of amazing images were taken and this is just enough to appreciate the high point of the event. Things more physical or…

Cosmological Constant - it's the blog's title, but something more, As you may know, Einstein himself called it his greatest blunder. Why did he say these words? Let us see...When Albert Einstein…

The CERN average of searches for rare B decays to muon pairs has been shown yesterday in a talk given by Mitesh Patel at the "Physics at the LHC" conference, which is being held in Vancouver (BC)…

The fourth FQXi essay contest “Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?” is underway.   Wittgenstein knew precisely which one; I am all about that one as you may know, but we are…