A newly discovered system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense pulsar, all packed into a space smaller than the Earth's orbit around the sun, could allow astronomers to tackle the very nature of…

This blog is straight old Newtonian gravity. A goal is to understand where the three kinds of masses in Newton's Universal Law of Gravity live in the context of the action. In the force equation,…

I been having bad dreams (a little exaggeration) on trying to contemplate if the arguments stated in EPR paper may have been correct. It is not clear to me whether Bell really did disprove the hidden…

The DZERO experiment is one of the two multi-purpose detectors that have collected 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider until two years ago, when the machine was…

I'm sorry I've been away so long:  The "press of life" got the "better of me".  Sometimes, life just "gets in the way".  (No excuses.  I simply had other "things" that needed to…

Physicists at Yale and Harvard have thrown a new curve at Supersymmetry, the popular hypothesis about what lies beyond physics' reigning model of fundamental forces and particles, the Standard…

Another year, another card inspired by what I am thinking about in physics. Inside the card it reads... Time is not space, space is not time. Space-time is a marriage, complex and tense. In an…

I met George Zweig at a conference in Crete last Summer. He impressed me with the multidisciplinarity of his interests and his quite entertaining career. He has a degree in mathematics, and did quite…

Since the discovery of the charm quark in 1974, physicists have postulated a rare process in which a charm particle spontaneously changes into its antiparticle. Evidence for this behavior was…

[note: this blog, as written is insufficient. I will need to provide an action to clarify the nature of the proposal.] The Spoon and the Moon Give a baby a spoon, and the little one is likely to…