The second day of the “Neutrino Conference XIII” in Venice was dedicated to, well, neutrino telescopes. I have written down in stenographical fashion some of the things I heard, and I offer them to those of you who are really interested in the topic, without much editing. Besides, making...

Couple Adopts Eight Siblings Another example of the hidden grace that utterly permeates the world and goes almost unnoticed by the so-called news media in its quest to shock, titillate and sell beer and shampoo. For every story like this, there 50 gazillion Brangelina and Jen or Culture of Death tal...

The Skating Nun Another lovely little tale from our "Grace is Dark Matter" department. The world *swims* in these little encounters that go entirely unnotice by what is laughingly referred to as the News Media. Such really is news: it brings us encounters with a God we never expected. But it's not "...

To start 2009 with a tidy desk, I wish to put some order in the posts about particle physics I wrote in 2008. By collecting a few links here, I save from oblivion the most meaningful of them -or at least I make them just a bit more accessible. In due time, I will update the “physics made easy&...

A reader writes: Here's something I've been contemplating... I've noticed that many atheists try to distinguish between "There is no God" and "I don't believe in God". Personally, I don't see any tangible difference between the two statements. Might this be a possible topic of discussion? Or has thi...

I’m just waiting for the first fundamentalist religious group to propose that mysterious dark energy and Dark Matter are manifestations of the Devil and that this Darkness is the Biblical metaphor for Hell That We in the universe of Lightness and Matter, are opposed by this Dark Energy and Ant...

Last Tuesday Nima Arkani-Hamed was a guest speaker at the CMS exotics meeting. We are currently in the CMS week, an event which happens every three months and when all the CMS collaboration gathers at CERN (or in another -possibly nicer- venue, once in a year), to discuss physics, detector issues, a...

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A recent analysis by CDF, based on 2 inverse femtobarns of data (approximately 160 trillion proton-antiproton collisions) has searched for events featuring a rare mixture of striking objects: high-energy photons, significant missing transverse energy, and energetic b-quark jets. Photons at a proton-...

According to Newton's Second Law of Dynamics, objects on the farthest edges of galaxies should have lower velocities than objects near the center. But observations confirm that galaxies rotate with a uniform velocity. Some astronomers believe the orbital behavior of galaxies can be explained mo...