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SUSY and extra dimensions together are more compatible with LHC data
In the morning, I read the daily papers on the arXiv and exactly one paper stayed open in my browser: Auto-Concealment of Supersymmetry in Extra Dime…
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AMANDA, neutrinos, and new physics
David Goss has pointed out a press release about AMANDA (press release) AMANDA (report by LinuxElectrons) A system of neutrino detectors immersed d…
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Testing E=mc2 for centuries
Chad Orzel seems to disagree with my comments about the interplay between the theory and experiment in physics. That's too bad because I am con…
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Joe Polchinski on failure of all Lorentz-breaking theories
In June 2011, Joe Polchinski , the main father of D-branes and other things, clarified some confusion in another June 2011 paper. (Yes, I took this W…
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Meter-long 10 GeV accelerators
Do you want to build a 10 GeV accelerator of electrons in your bathroom? You need some strong lasers and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ex…
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Another anti-physics issue of SciAm
High energy physics is undoubtedly the queen and the ultimate reductionist root of all natural sciences. Nevertheless, during the last decade, it has…
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A 30-fold improvement of bounds on Lorentz-, CPT-violating spin anisotropy terms
Decades ago, Wolfgang Pauli has proved the CPT-theorem. G. Lüders and J. Bell did the same thing almost independently in 1954 but all of them had to …
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Neutron spectroscopy constrains axions, chameleons
Tobias Jenke of Vienna and 11 co-authors from Austria, Germany, and France have performed an interesting experiment with neutrons in the gravitationa…
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Nonsensical hype on negative temperatures
Off-topic cinema: I've seen my first 3D movie in a cinema today, The Life of Pi about a sensitive Indian teenager whose family moves to Canada …
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