Year: 2022

NOT MINCING WORDS. “Nowadays, many intellectual slobs and frauds have been given tenured jobs, are allowed to teach garbage in the name of academic freedom, and see their obnoxious writings published by scholarly journals and university presses.” (The late Professor Mario Bunge, outspoken — but brilliant — physicist turned philosopher). https://lnkd.in/eEhR_sWw View in LinkedIn

HUBBLE shots over 30 years have changed the way we appreciate the cosmos. https://lnkd.in/eNCyx2Gv View in LinkedIn

MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY. “The measurement is undeniably exciting. But extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence — a confidence level of more than 99.9999% will be needed to be certain that leptonic CP violation has occurred.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO POOLS. “The next generation of large-scale, multi-purpose neutrino experiments is preparing for the challenge. The T2HK experiment in Japan is based on the same technology as T2K but will use the Hyper-Kamiokande detector, which will have ten times the mass of water and a more intense beam.” (500,000 tonnes of ultrapure water). " " https://lnkd.in/dY3WCdw https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

LARGE-SCALE NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS. “Hyper-Kamiokande received official approval this February, and construction will start soon. And the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be based at the Sanford Lab in Lead, South Dakota; its technical-design report was published in February.” (Written April 2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO CAPTURE DESIGN. “DUNE will use a different detector technology consisting of four modules filled with several thousand tonnes of liquid argon, to detect an intense beam of neutrinos produced 1,300 km away at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

PATIENT HUNT. “Smaller prototypes tested at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, have demonstrated the feasibility of the large-scale DUNE detector. T2HK and DUNE therefore provide complementary techniques and measurements. They will probably give us a definitive answer in the quest for CP violation in the next 15 years.” (By 2035). (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal)." " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

ETHER, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD, MOLECULE. “[Physicists] wished to keep physics testable. To accomplish this goal, they adopted the safe method, namely to banish every idea that could not be closely tied to observation.” (A world of sense experience; historical footnote). https://lnkd.in/eTkAFGYS View in LinkedIn

Hubble shot of Mystic Mountain. https://lnkd.in/eYGpfGVM View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY are the subject of the next section in this blog. This is clearly the elephant in the room of modern astrophysics, since it is so enormous and so unresolved. It is a reminder of how much we are still in the Dark Ages, a backward species. View in LinkedIn