Physics
LHC Has Bad Wiring
Does the summer heat have your liquid helium-cooled superconductivity in a quench? That’s nothing compared to the current state of the Large Hadron Collider.
Mind-boggling physics–printed and bound
In the DNA of my family the science gene went astray. My father was a civil engineer who designed suburban roadways, but all I inherited from him was an excellent sense of direction. My cousin teaches high school science but I’ve a sneaking suspicion it’s because he likes to blow things up. I had somehow managed to avoid the nitty-gritty of most things scientific until I came to work for Cambridge.
Reflections on a Self-Representing Universe
Shahn Majid This will be my last regular post for a while because of Christmas and teaching three courses next term at my University. These past eleven posts, see here and here, have been my personal take on many of the topics covered in On Space and Time and its now time in this twelfth [...]
Quantum Gravity Solved! … If You’re an Ant
Shahn Majid After last week’s imaginative speculation, I’d better tell you something concrete. How about the solution to quantum gravity that has been eluding us for some 90 years? Here it is … er … with one minor catch. We’ll have to suppose that spacetime is 3 dimensional, i.e. one time and only two space [...]
Aristotle May Provide the Key to Quantum Gravity
Shahn Majid So far in these posts we have looked at testable quantum gravity effects, but I have not said much about the ultimate theory of quantum gravity itself. There is a simple reason: I do not think we have a compelling theory yet. Rather, I think that this deepest and most long-standing of all [...]
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