Skeptophilia

A major underpinning of our understanding of physics has to do with symmetry  and conservation laws . Both have to do with order, balance, a...

A couple of days ago, I was talking with my son about the Standard Model of Particle Physics (as one does). The Standard Model is a theoret...

One of the hardest things about understanding quantum physics is that it is so fundamentally different from the way things act on the macros...

Every time I hear some new discovery in quantum physics, I think, "Okay, it can't get any weirder than this." Each time, I tur...

It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here.  According to the current most widely-accepted cosmo...

I don't really regret the weird, meandering path I took through the educational system -- but I have to admit to a bit of envy when it c...

Many of you undoubtedly know about CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the world's largest particle physics laboratory...

It's simultaneously amusing and frustrating to see the woo-woos trying to incorporate the latest scientific findings into their wooism. ...

Sometimes I feel like all I do in this blog is to deliver bad news.  Gullibility and credulousness are rampant, not to mention hoaxers and c...

It's begun, just as I predicted it would. This week, a pair of physicists at Cornell, Joseph Lykken and Gabe Shaughnessy, published a ...

In yesterday's post, I made the claim that men don't necessarily always think only about sports or sex, that sometimes we think abou...