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Category Archives: Particle Physics
Is There a Problem With the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
Is There A Problem With the Standard Model of Particle Physics? This is just a short talk on the Science Breakthroughs of 2021 for OLLI at UC Irvine. The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment Experimental Discrepancy The muon is essentially a … Continue reading
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Trump’s Proposed 2019 DoE and NASA Cuts, and Actual Increases
Trump’s Proposed Cuts to the Department of Energy and NASA, with their actual Congressional Increases. Department of Energy Budget In the following table for the science sectors of the Department of Energy, we give, in millions of dollars: the 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Conservation, Department of Energy, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, NASA, Nuclear Energy, Particle Physics, Renewable Energy, Science and Engineering Education, Science Funding, Solar Energy, Trump Budget, University Funding, Wind Energy
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Homage to Richard Feynman on His Hundredth Birthdate
May 11, 2018, would be the physicist Richard Feynman’s hundredth birthday. I gave a talk to OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) on him in 2012. I never referenced it appropriately on my list of topics. But to pay homage to … Continue reading
Solar Fusion by Quantum Tunneling
Solar Fusion by Quantum Tunneling This is supposed to be a short OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) lecture to accompany the Teaching Company Lecture 48 by Prof. Alex Filippenko. His lecture is entitled “How Stars Shine — Nature’s Nuclear Reactors. … Continue reading
UCI Neutrino Group Shares in Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prizes were just announced in the NY Times, on Nov. 8, 2015. One of the Fundamental Physics Prizes went to five neutrino experiments that showed that neutrinos oscillated. The UCI Department of Physics and Astronomy Neutrino Group participated … Continue reading
UC Irvine’s Contribution to the 2015 Nobel Prizes in Physics
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by leaders of the Super-Kamiokande and SNO neutrino experiments, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, respectively. The Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment in Japan showed that neutrinos oscillated, and therefore had mass. The Sudbury … Continue reading
Symmetries in the Mathematical Description of Nature
Part of the consideration of the question of the connection of mathematics to the understanding of nature is the discovery of symmetries in nature, and the formulation of this symmetry in mathematics. Symmetry was established in this connection when Emily … Continue reading
The Effectiveness of Mathematics in Describing the Universe
NOVA just had a show on this question. But besides the original question is that of what type of answer are you looking for, or what answer will you accept? Otherwise the question is largely undefined. There are several simple … Continue reading
Neutrino Mysteries, Lecture for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
On Monday, April 7, I gave a lecture on “Neutrino Mysteries” to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of UC Irvine. It is at the link Neutrino Mysteries 5 . The talk covers neutrino properties and an explanation of neutrino mixing. It also … Continue reading
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LUX Rules Out Previous Dark Matter Results
The LUX dark matter search experiment announced its first results this morning, almost totally ruling out previous experiments that had evidence for dark matter particles at low mass. LUX had expected 1550 dark matter events if the other detections were … Continue reading
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