Materialistic Physics vs Spiritual Physics

LHC Physics Potential vs . Energy

Parton luminosities are convenient for estimating how the physics potential of Large Hadron Collider experiments depends on the energy of the proton beams. I present parton luminosities, ratios of parton luminosities, and contours of fixed parton luminosity for gg, ud̄, and qq interactions over the energy range relevant to the Large Hadron Collider, along with example analyses for specific proce...

“Fundamental” Physics: Molecular Dynamics vs. Hydrodynamics

Condensed matter physics concerns the “study of matter at everyday length and energy scales.” [12] The physics of such systems is by and large decoupled from the more “fundamental” physics at small lengths and higher energies. The nature of this decoupling is of great interest and brings with it the possibility of understanding aspects of how certain phenomena can be emergent. I believe there a...

B Physics B Physics

A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?

quantum physics: a case for anti-realism?

the aim of the present paper is to sbo» that anti-realism in science, 1vhich has a1;guab/y become more fashionable in recentyears, contrary to tuha: its proponents assert, cannot make use of quantum mechanics and its impressiue achievements as a frump card in justifying its claims. i will argue that scientific anti-realism far from providing scientific communiry with a progressive methodologica...