Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Wash Park Prophet Recent Physics Related Posts Index and PDG Link

I wrote a number of posts at Wash Park Prophet about physics before this blog was created and reference some of those posts from August 2010 onward (excluding some posts with that tag that have only a tangential fit to the scientific developments in physics) here for convenience:

* More Heavy Particle Decay Asymmetry (August 18, 2010)

* Non-Abelian Geometry (August 19, 2010)

* Grad Student Wins Nobel Prize (October 5, 2010) (note that the headline turned out to be somewhat misleading).

* BenoƮt Mandelbrot R.I.P. (October 18, 2010)

* How Many Atoms Are There In A Mole? (October 18, 2010)

* More Dark Matter Science (November 4, 2010)

* Four Flavors Of Neutrinos? (November 8, 2010)

* Lost Of Dark Matter Actually Just Dim (December 2, 2010)

* Higgs Search Update (December 14, 2010)

* Tevatron Will Shut Down in September (January 11, 2011)

* New Physics and the CKM Matrix (January 14, 2011)

* Metaphysics (January 26, 2011)

* Experimental Tests For String Theory (February 1, 2011)

* Gluons Lose Mass With Momentum (February 1, 2011)

* SUSY Cornered (February 21, 2011)

* Baysean SUSY Parameter Odds (February 25, 2011)

* Cosmological Numerology

* A Strong CP Problem Conjecture (March 9, 2011)

* The Search For Dark Matter Continues (March 14, 2011)

* Superkamiokande: Neutrinos Not Very Weird (March 15, 2011)

* More Physics Scuttlebutt (March 15, 2011)

* Reactor Data Suggest Sterile Neutrinos (March 17, 2011)

* Fundamental Particle Spin As Emergent (March 21, 2011)

* CDF Cries New Physics, It Isn't Impossible That They're Right (April 6, 2011)

* WIMPs Very Weakly Interacting Or Not So Massive (April 18, 2011)

* Light Higgs Rumor (April 25, 2011)

* General Relativity Still Works Perfectly (May 5, 2011)

This post is also as good place as any to put a link to the Particle Data Group which is the standard reference for physicists that summarizes the latest experimental data regarding physical constants pertinent to Particle Physics. For example, it is the place to go if you need the latest experimental determination of the mass of an electron, or the minimum half-life for proton decay that has been excluded by experiment.

Other standard references for physical constants are CODATA and NIST.

Another useful reference: "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" by Roger Penrose (2004).

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