Physics news

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:01 am

Physicists size up the 'unitarity triangle'

B factory experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA and at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan have reached a new milestone in the quest to understand the matter-antimatter imbalance in our universe. These experiments are used by scientists from around the world, including the UK, to probe such fundamental questions.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:42 am

Don't they realize that the debits and credits have to match at the end of the column?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:42 am

Hey, they're physicists, not accountants!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:49 am

GEO600 starts continuous search for Gravitational Waves

The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has now entered an 18-month run of continuous measurement. Researchers are optimistic that they will be able to observe a never before seen phenomena the Gravitational Wave which is one of the great untested predictions of Einsteins General Theory of Relativity.

(Gravity - a heavy subject!)

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:42 am

Surf's up!

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:23 pm

lswot wrote:Surf's up!

Gee I sure hope we don't have anybody here from the Northeast.

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:03 am

Xjmt wrote:
lswot wrote:Surf's up!
Gee I sure hope we don't have anybody here from the Northeast.

Yeah......they might not see the 'fun' in that......sorry Northeasterners.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:34 am

G-Zero Finds that Ghostly Strange Quarks Influence Proton Structure

In research performed at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab, nuclear physicists have found that strange quarks do contribute to the structure of the proton. This result indicates that, just as previous experiments have hinted, strange quarks in the proton's quark-gluon sea contribute to a proton's properties.

Henry

Rstegman · Post by **Rstegman** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:20 am

Henry J wrote:G-Zero Finds that Ghostly Strange Quarks Influence Proton Structure
In research performed at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab, nuclear physicists have found that strange quarks do contribute to the structure of the proton. This result indicates that, just as previous experiments have hinted, strange quarks in the proton's quark-gluon sea contribute to a proton's properties.
Henry

If strange quarks do that, what do normal quarks do?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:04 am

Well, the up quarks try to push the proton/neutron up, and the down quarks try to push it down, so they balance each other out allowing the composite particle to stay more or less put.

Either that or Quark runs a bar on a deep space station.

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:58 am

Is this one of the rules of acquisition?

Either that or Quark runs a bar on a deep space station.

I'll :preach: to that!

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:58 am

Falling Onto the Dark

Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence for Hydrogen Gas Falling onto a Dark Matter Clump?

ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it represents the early stage in the formation of a galaxy, when gas falls onto a large clump of dark matter.

(Beware the dark side!)

Henry

lswot · Post by **lswot** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:29 am

Where's Steve McQueen when you need him?