Browsing Archive: January, 2017

Dark Matter Still Exists...

Posted by on Monday, January 9, 2017,
A few weeks ago there was an announcement by a team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam that claimed they had analyzed the gamma-ray background and found no evidence of dark matter. It was a good result, and a valid claim, but unfortunately some of the online and mainstream media misunderstood exactly what the team was claiming. And while I wrote about this misunderstanding and tried to clarify it at the time, some people I have been speaking with are still confused.

For nearly a...
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Antihydrogen Spectrum

Posted by on Friday, January 6, 2017,
A few days before the holidays began, I made a passing mention of an interesting new result from the ALPHA collaboration relating to the measurement of the spectrum of anti-hydrogen. Since that time a few people have inquired about it, and asked for more details.

Let me begin with a little background on the topic.

As most of us recall from high school science class, everything that we see around us is made of atoms. Protons, neutrons and electrons combine in different amounts to form diffe...
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Yes, I Can Read A Calendar

Posted by on Monday, January 2, 2017, In : Administrative 
It is true, I am capable of reading a calendar and I am aware that Christmas and New Year's Day were over a week ago. I could bluff and argue that since my grandmother was Ukrainian I am celebrating the orthodox Christmas instead, but the real answer is far more boring. 
 
For reasons that I still haven't been able to ascertain, the company that hosts my blog on this site and one of my other websites suddenly closed down their blogging program on Christmas Eve. Because of the holidays I haven't...

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2016 Year In Review

Posted by on Monday, January 2, 2017,
Another year has passed by, and what a year it has been. It has been a year of highs and lows, but most important a year of great progress (and one rather obvious setbacks) for the scientific community.

We began the year with a lot of interesting rumors. As 2016 began, the scientific community was quietly talking about leaked claims that the LIGO experiment had detected gravitational waves after thirty years of searching. These rumors were to be confirmed one month later, with the formal ann...
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Merry Christmas!

Posted by on Monday, January 2, 2017,


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About Me


Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   


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