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Kieran Healy's Weblog - Elementary Particles "Particle physics has been in the doldrums a bit lately, so they could do with some interdisciplinary reinvigoration. Also, their research budgets remain quite large." (tags: social-science silly physics blogs) Crooked Timber » » Necrotrends: The…
Stopping atoms A "coil-gun" method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas (tags: physics low-temperature science atoms) Confessions of a Community College Dean: An Open Letter to Mayor Richard M. Daley The Dean Dad is less polite to Hizzoner than I was (tags:…
Disorder puts the brakes on matter waves - physicsworld.com Using cold atoms in optical lattices to simulate "Anderson localization." (tags: physics atoms optics low-temperature experiment materials news science)
New family of quaternary iron-based compounds superconducts at tens of kelvin - Physics Today May 2008 "Last year it looked as though high-Tc superconductivity takes place only in CuO2 planes. Now that LaOFeAs has broken the cuprates' monopoly, what other superconductors wait to be discovered?" (…

GRB080319B - Did LIGO see anything gravitationally wavy? Super-Kamiokande anything neutrinolicious?

As for matter's preponderance over antimatter and CP violation... Something present-day detectable must power inflation, select matter over antimatter, source left-handed weak interaction, source homochiral biology (chiral protein L-amino acids; natural D-sugars), originate in orthodox theory, not contradict prior observations, and exclude most of the 10^1000 allowable string theory vacua.

Standard Model extensions lack validation (proton decay half-life and Super-Kamiokande; CAST and solar axions). Perturbation and Yukawa potential techniques are sour jokes. Equivalence Principle and Lorentz Invariance violation attempts are sterile. Quantized gravitations are disasters.

Dump pseudo-Riemannian spacetime V^4. Use Weitzenböck spacetime A^4 with spacetime torsion. It has a teleparallel gravitational energy-momentum pseudotensor anti-symmetric to parity transformation. It supports a pseudoscalar chiral vacuum background.

1) Only opposite parity mass configuration is interactive - no contradictions of prior observations, especially massless EM,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0581
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0287
Exquisite bounds
2) Chiral asymmetries are naturally sourced.
3) Chiral vacuum background is detected va unremarkable parity Eötvös and parity caloritmetry experiments (not PVED experiments).
4) Somebdy should look. Don't send a particle in to do a field's work.