Comments on: Most Exciting Discovery

By: A Path Forward | Cosmic Variance

A Path Forward | Cosmic Variance — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:30:44 +0000

[…] Caveats: First, I must make some confessions. (1) I gave input to the panel. I was asked to present the physics case for the International Linear Collider (ILC) to the panel. In fact, I was the only speaker they heard which outlined the actual measurements that the ILC could perform. (I wasn’t nervous while giving the talk or anything…) I also served on a panel which wrote a report for the panel outlining the role of the ILC in the era of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). That report was alot of work, but we are pleased with how it turned out. A snazzier version will make its public debut next week, and CV fans will be the first to read all about it. I also served on an ad-hoc committee to address a set of questions posed by the panel. CV readers even helped on that one! (2) I am tickled pink with this report! I very strongly support the International Linear Collider. I believe that it will be necessary to decipher what is found at the LHC - it also has the potential to directly study dark matter particles in a controlled laboratory environment. In addition, I would like to see the US host the ILC because I care deeply about the vitality of the US high energy physics program in particular, and the US science program as a whole. […]

By: Shantanu

Shantanu — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:23:03 +0000

Some more :
1) Discovery/evidence for fractionally charged stable particles
2) Discovery of strange stars
3) Evidence for sterile neutrinos
for some crazy stuff which no one mentioned how about
evidence for advanced potentials in electromagnetism
(see P.C.W. Davies, 1975 Journal of Physics A 8 ,272 1975 which discusses some experiments which looked for such effects.)

By: Most Exciting Discovery Revealed | Cosmic Variance

Most Exciting Discovery Revealed | Cosmic Variance — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:30:34 +0000

[…] I recently wrote about a request from a wise panel of experts to name the single discovery (in high energy physics) that would be the most surprising possibility in the next decade. You, our readers, gave a variety of enlightening and entertaining responses. […]

By: A Day in the Life | Cosmic Variance

A Day in the Life | Cosmic Variance — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:58:55 +0000

[…] Morning at work: Chat with co-workers. Deal with referee reports: write a reply to answer a referee report on my latest paper, print out the large review article that I have been asked to referee (printer jammed several times, so the printing process took awhile), started to read a paper that I have been asked to referee - determined that they included all the correct Feynman diagrams contributing to their calculation. Started the required computer training course for supervisors on detecting sexual harassment (last week we determined that supervising graduate students counts as being an official lab/university supervisor). Talked at length on the phone with my former graduate student, and laid out the groundwork for a new project we are starting (I’m quite excited about it!). Filled out the paperwork to have my desktop monitor, which died last week, fixed or replaced. Cleaned out my backpack (this was not trivial). Read through the latest draft of responses to a set of questions posed by the EPP2010 panel about the future of high energy physics. Continuous monitoring of email. […]

By: Thomas Larsson

Thomas Larsson — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:37:25 +0000

Arun,

After having spent some time penetrating the papers, I now believe that Korzynski’s criticism is correct. A critical point is that C&T construct a non-zero solution to the Laplace equation which vanishes at infinity. Since the solution to the Laplace equation is unique, and zero is the solution with zero boundary conditions, C&T must in fact be making an error. As Korzynski points out, they deal in fact with the Poisson equation with a delta-function source delta(z).

I guess I have learnt (again) not to trust the popular press, not even Cern Courier.

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:40:34 +0000

The Cooperstock et al. paper on dark matter got slash-dotted (my awareness is from Peter Woit’s blog).

http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/10/10/1052224.shtml?tid=160&tid=14

By: Brian Elliott

Brian Elliott — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:25:07 +0000

We are lagging in our integrating the insights of modern science, in our everyday world-view. A great discovery would include a way to help people make the quantum leap in understanding.

forget about extra dimensions…most people don’t have a notion of space/time!

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:01:55 +0000

Arun (58),

There had to be a fundamental shift in perspective from flat euclidean thinking, to gravitational understandings.

If you did not include “bubble technologies” as I relate in my site linked in 57, then how would any geometrical valution have ever made sense in geometrodynamical views. You need models for this (Reimann), and a shift in “tonal perspectives” in relation? Webber comes to mind here and gravitational perspective, and roads leading to better ways from historical standpoint in which to percieve Kip Thorne’s LIGO monitors, and future roads leading to comprehension.

This “bubble creation” would account for the “missing energy” from a theoretical standpoint, as temperature increase(CFT relation?)? One would thus look for such signs in the early cosmos? I was looking for geometrical consistancies, and any evidnece of this was from my poor layman views, that were trying to mature.

Still waiting for JoAnne to write her blog entry on this.

By: expando (. org)

expando (. org) — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:13:10 +0000

If we’re going to make it another thousand years, it would be pretty cool and mutually beneficial for everyone if we could humanize on an international level– if we could recognize the need for human beings to take pride as hive organism rather than divided as we so are.

I want a predator from space.

Short of that.. yeah.. warp drives,

Or a freak high energy accident, or a graviton.

By: Arun

Arun — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:39:51 +0000

Plato, I’m sorry, but I have difficulty in understanding.