Tag: TH
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Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory
Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. In his seminar, Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University) discussed how can we reconcile these apparently conflicting observations, and invited us to think "What would John Bell have to say about
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The Infinity Puzzle – The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six
The Infinity Puzzle – The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six Frank Close delivered a talk about his book The Infinity Puzzle (http://www.infinitypuzzlebook.com/) that covers the history of 50 years of particle physics, the emergence of the Standard Model realizing the unification of the weak
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The Higgs boson, a History.
The Higgs boson, a History. Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis discuss the history of the Higgs mechanism, indicate its importance for the Standard Model and examine its implications for the scientific community in a paper published in Nature Physics (January 2011). You can read the full paper here.
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First Planck Results and Cosmological Implications
First Planck Results and Cosmological Implications
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Eyes on a prize particle_unpublished
Eyes on a prize particle_unpublished Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis in an article previously published in NATURE PHYSICS (VOL 7 | JANUARY 2011) trace the history of the formulation of the Higgs mechanism and discuss the importance of the long-theorized Higgs-particle. The Standard Model deals with three of the four fundamental forces; namely the electromagnetic
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Plancks results: Theoretical cosmologists’ perspective
Plancks results: Theoretical cosmologists' perspective Julien Lesgourgues and Jan Hamann, respectively staff and post-doctoral fellows of the TH unit here at CERN, are members of the Planck collaboration, and have contributed to the analysis of the Planck data presented in the series of articles published by collaboration in March. Another staff member of the TH
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Planck mission releases first cosmology results
Planck mission releases first cosmology results The «Planck» was launched by the European Space Agency aiming at a detailed record of the microwave background radiation, a relic of the primordial plasma filling the universe during the first hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, that is still observable today. ESA’s Planck satellite has been surveying
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Creative Collisions at CERN TH
Creative Collisions at CERN TH Creative collisions continue at CERN this summer when the internationally renowned sound artist, Bill Fontana, takes up his Collide@CERN residence for two months from June 2013. The 65 year old america artist, who studied with John Cage and is well known for turning iconic structures into sound sculptures – such
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TH institute on black hole horizons and quantum information
TH institute on black hole horizons and quantum information In classical General Relativity, black holes are the generic endpoint of gravitational collapse. They are characterized by an event horizon separating two causally disconnected regions, one visible to an asymptotic observer, the other accessible to an infalling observer. Semi-classical reasoning suggests that black holes decay by
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TH Winter School 2013
TH Winter School 2013 The 2013 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, strings and gauge theory took place from 4th to 8th of February following a tradition that dates back to 2005. The School was originally organized by the European Thematic Network on “Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe”. Since 2009, the school is