Strange Fermilab Code Nearly Cracked
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, hosts the second largest particle accelerator in the world (next to the LHC), and employs hundreds of physicists from around the world. Hundreds…
Read moreSolving the Black Hole Information "Paradox"
In January, Abhay Ashtekar posted a short preprint in which he (along with two collaborators) proposed a new solution to the so-called black hole information paradox in 1+1 dimensions. Their…
Read moreLHC Black Holes: Why I’m Not Holding My Breath
The attention that these two nut-jobs are receiving is a bit discouraging. Some people do hope to see mini-black-holes at CERN, it’s true. Some calculate that we will see thousands.…
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