Guest post at Backreaction January 29, 2007
Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, internet, personal, physics, science.4 comments
Sabine Hossenfelder (aka Bee) published yesterday evening a post I wrote about myself -and why I became a physicist- at her site . Check it out… There is even a funny picture I took with my webcam the other day.
An excerpt:
“When I was a kid, I used to be a little mathematics genius. I was fascinated by math and its rationality - everything was simple, and orderly, quite unlike the shattering relationship between my parents. Math was a refuge [...] “
On the significance of mass bumps January 29, 2007
Posted by dorigo in computers, internet, mathematics, personal, physics, politics, science.9 comments
The excess of di-tau events found by CDF while searching for higgs boson decays in their dataset spurred some discussion around the blogosphere on what is the real significance of the observed bump (see for instance the comments column in http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=509 Peter Woit’s blog, or the one in http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/01/mssm-higgs-at-160-gev-21-sigma-signal.html Motl’s blog).
Since a precise evaluation of the real significance is arguably still to come, we are in the happy situation of letting our opinions, gut feelings, and experience have their say on the matter. (more…)
