Comments on: Small Things Considered http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Correlations http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-85664 Correlations Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:02:22 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-85664 <strong>What is the Big Round Thing?...</strong> You may have seen Ziya interview Jim Gates on last week's show. If you did not, you can check it out on the show's video archive. Somewhere in there, he mentioned the new experiment called the "Large Hadron Collider", or LHC, which several physicis... What is the Big Round Thing?…

You may have seen Ziya interview Jim Gates on last week’s show. If you did not, you can check it out on the show’s video archive. Somewhere in there, he mentioned the new experiment called the “Large Hadron Collider”, or LHC, which several physicis…

]]> By: Exploring QCD in Cambridge - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-73149 Exploring QCD in Cambridge - Asymptotia Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:02:09 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-73149 [...] So the conference here at the Newton Institute in Cambridge is simply marvellous. I’m so glad I came, and so happy that I was invited to attend and make a contribution to it by giving a talk and having discussions. It’s a rather splendid combination of experimentalists, phenomenologists, and various hardcore theorists of various sorts, and there are ideas just flying around and bouncing off the walls. The title is “Exploring QCD: Deconfinement, Extreme Environments and Holography”, (it’s organized by Nick Evans, Simon Hands, and Mike Teper) and the focus is very much the fascinating nuclear physics of heavy ion collisions at the RHIC experiment at Brookhaven, and the experiments to come on heavy ion collisions at the LHC at CERN. The latter is an aspect of the physics to be done at the LHC that you don’t hear about much because it is sidestepped in favour of discussions about the Higgs, origin of mass, supersymmetry, theories of everything - such as strings, microscopic black holes, extra dimensions and all that other good stuff. (See earlier discussions here, here and here.) [...] [...] So the conference here at the Newton Institute in Cambridge is simply marvellous. I’m so glad I came, and so happy that I was invited to attend and make a contribution to it by giving a talk and having discussions. It’s a rather splendid combination of experimentalists, phenomenologists, and various hardcore theorists of various sorts, and there are ideas just flying around and bouncing off the walls. The title is “Exploring QCD: Deconfinement, Extreme Environments and Holography”, (it’s organized by Nick Evans, Simon Hands, and Mike Teper) and the focus is very much the fascinating nuclear physics of heavy ion collisions at the RHIC experiment at Brookhaven, and the experiments to come on heavy ion collisions at the LHC at CERN. The latter is an aspect of the physics to be done at the LHC that you don’t hear about much because it is sidestepped in favour of discussions about the Higgs, origin of mass, supersymmetry, theories of everything - such as strings, microscopic black holes, extra dimensions and all that other good stuff. (See earlier discussions here, here and here.) [...]

]]> By: LHC Coverage - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-45561 LHC Coverage - Asymptotia Wed, 16 May 2007 01:07:28 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-45561 [...] To start, if you did not catch the radio pieces on NPR by David Kestenbaum, I reported on it earlier you can find them here and here. There are links to video and audio on the website… A lot of fun and informative material. [...] [...] To start, if you did not catch the radio pieces on NPR by David Kestenbaum, I reported on it earlier you can find them here and here. There are links to video and audio on the website… A lot of fun and informative material. [...]

]]> By: Carl Brannen http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-38222 Carl Brannen Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:16:36 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/04/10/small-things-considered/#comment-38222 Clifford, Speaking of elementary things that have not yet been observed, what do you think of the weird statistics possessed by the Higgs and graviton implied by section 4 (pp 20-23) of this <a href="http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0212096" rel="nofollow">Lubos paper?</a> Clifford, Speaking of elementary things that have not yet been observed, what do you think of the weird statistics possessed by the Higgs and graviton implied by section 4 (pp 20-23) of this Lubos paper?

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