Condensed concepts

A week ago we had an interesting physics colloquium The Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider  by Elizabetta Barberio, who works in the A...

It is amazing to me how much the Higgs boson has featured in the press and entered the public consciousness lately. I fear this is partly ...

There is a nice article by Frank Close,  Higgs boson: beginning of the end or end of the beginning. It gives a succinct discussion of the ...

There is a somewhat amusing column Our Political Black Hole  in the New York Times by Gail Collins. It considers the fictional response of U...

This post may just reflect my ill informed prejudices. Please correct me. Sorry, but I cannot get excited about the Large Hadron Collider (...

In condensed matter one can see many analogues of phenomena in quantum field theory and elementary particle physics. There have been many fr...