Guest posts
In this page I collect links to posts written by fellow researchers, bloggers, or just friends on topics of interest to this blog’s main content - science. My hope is that by crafting an easy-to-access permanent list these posts get the attention they deserve…
- April 2nd, 2007 - Amedeo Balbi: Dark Energy for Beginners : an introduction to a fascinating and controversial topic of today’s cosmology by Amedeo, a researcher in Rome and successful author of “The music of Big Bang”
- July 12th, 2007 - Fabio Zandanel: Dark Matter and the MAGIC Telescope : a discussion of the signatures of dark matter accessible to gamma ray astrophysics by a member of the MAGIC collaboration
- July 29th, 2007 - Daniele Bortoluzzi: LISA and its challenges : a researcher in Trento, Daniele offers a discussion of the surprising mechanical challenges of the LISA interferometer, which has the potential of finally detecting gravitational waves
- October 4th, 2007 - Marni D. Sheppeard: Is Category Theory Useful ? : Marni, a theoretical physicist from New Zealand, gives a very simple and clear introduction to category theory, a non-mainstream development which may provide the key to solve many open problems in theoretical physics
- October 14th, 2007 - Louise Riofrio: Fundamental Values : Louise, a researcher in cosmology from the west coast, provides a clear and entertaining discussion on the concept of fundamental constants in physics
- October 16th, 2007 - Alejandro Rivero: sBootstrap : Alejandro, a theoretical physicist in Zaragoza, explains his bold idea on how we might have been looking for supersymmetric particles in the wrong place.
- October 18th, 2007 - Rick Ryals: Dirac’s holes and Einstein’s constant : Rick, a independent researcher, discusses his pet theory on the connection between Dirac’s negative energy states and the curvature of the universe.
- October 29th, 2007 - Carl Brannen: Four Magnificent Papers by Authors Who Think I’m a Complete Idiot: Carl, an engineer with a masters in Physics and a penchant for fundamental theories, discusses loosely about symmetry, elastic stress and wave equations, and our preconceived notions on the speed of light.
- November 16th, 2007 - George Barouxis: “Extrinsic” Relativity: George is a translator of English books in Greek. In this post he discusses visually the laws describing special relativity and then goes on to discuss the geometry of spacetime with his visualization tools.
- December 13th, 2007 - Tony Smith: “Visualizing E8 Physics”: Tony is a lawyer with a research physics background. In this post he discusses an alternative interpretation to Garrett Lisi’s published one of the structure of the group and its transformation properties.
- April 30th, 2008 - Jeff Wyss: “The Relativistic Train”: Jeff is a physics professor at the University of Cassino, and he possesses excellent teaching skills. In this post he offers a derivation of the formula for relativistic velocities which only uses simple algebra and the concept of invariance.
Hi !
Please, could you give the e-mail address of Tony Smith ? I would like to contact him. It looks like his old address is not working and I cannot contact him. He knows me. Otherwise you could give him my address :
siul.segrob@gmail.com
Thanks a lot in advance,
Cheers,
Siul.
On the contrary I do not know you, but let me congratulate you by your choosing of pen-name. Umberto Eco did a similar one with “de Burgos”, at least in the Spanish version if “the name of the rose”. And I noticed in the internet that the blind librarian of a mythical library in Baghdad wore a similar name: gejor siul ibn segrob.
Hi
I think I have found something that could interest you about the Ether and gravity:
The only thing that pushes us to keep the concept of duality alive is gravity. Everything tends to show that matter is only spherical standing waves in a medium (Ether).
In my website http://unificationproject.blogspot.com/ I’m proposing a structure of the Ether that agrees gravity laws:
Through some famous quotes, that the theory of the Ether is the base hypothesis that have built all our fundamental physics theories and we will define space time as the mathematical description of the Ether behavior.
There exists a structure of the Ether that follows the inverse square law and agrees with Newton gravitational law using “Working model” software for simulation. This Ether definition is based on a springs structure
At the end of the website I’m proposing that matter is only a perception (schaumkommen) as Erwin Schroedinger said; and the new definition of matter that agrees with all basic physics theories should be: spherical standing waves that pull a portion of Ether and create a distrotion (gravity) through it.
http://unificationproject.blogspot.com/
This theory is simple and seems that it agrees with most physics laws. I’m sure that at least; it explains gravity at a quantum level
Thank you for visiting
Lol Alejandro, decyphering anonymous names is an occupation I had not thought about so far.
Dear Saad, gravity is not high in my list of interests. I would be unable to provide expert insight if I read your material, but I encourage any theoretician who stumbles in this column to have a look at your blog.
Cheers,
T.
T, after for years looking at approximate relationships, it seems that I have got some neurons shooting by themselves, so an strange force launched me to google for the anonymous. Ah, I saw the widow of the other Siul once, she entered to hear some of the speech of Agustin Garcia in Madrid, sit for ten minutes, and left.
About the recent comment in a mistery…, of course I shall be grateful if you read it, but I should be even more grateful if string theoreticians were willing to comment on it. Perhaps instead of abusing of you asking you to write about me, I could abuse in a different way and to take opportunity of your Guest Post section some day…
As for more info about decay width of the Higgs, I am sorry I haven got specific training, so only the standard literature as you guessed. The books we mentioned, plus the Higgs Hunter Guide or similar things.
Hmm, a comment went lost between 4 and 5, probably the spam trap. Basically I was thanking your offer of reading my 0710.1526, and volunteering myself for a guest post.
About the higgs, it is good I did that remark in your website, I had forgot about it. Yes I checked the predicted width against mass both for a top decay and for a higgs decay by using standard formulae from the textbooks, hoping to understand a bit more about the process of electroweak symmetry breaking (which is the cause of the difference between quintic and cubic dependence). But at the end it was mostly clutter in the plot, no more informational than as it is now.
LOL Alejandro, neurons shooting by themselves is a good thing, it makes you a true dreamer. Anyway, I answered you privately about the guest post (great idea).
For others, Alejandro is mentioning another thread here, one about the “mystery behind the Z width”. He who googleth will findeth.
Cheers,
T.
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Wow! amazing
I like that!
hi could you post some other info. about discoveries in astronomy?i”m dona from Phil. tnx
Dear Dona,
I am not sure when, but this blog does also deal with Astronomy, so hang around and we will discuss something soon.
Cheers,
T.
Hello!
I think this try.
What are some top universities in Italy for Physics?
Hi Larry,
I would say Roma “La Sapienza”, the “Scuola Normale Superiore” in Pisa, and the University of Padova are three among the top universities for Physics.
Cheers,
T.
molto grazie!!
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