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RÉSONAANCES
Personal blog · resonaances.blogspot.comscience
RÉSONAANCES is a personal blog at resonaances.blogspot.com about science. Since 2009, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Black Hole Dark Matter”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link RÉSONAANCES for particle physics coverage of LHC results, the Higgs, and the 750 GeV diphoton excess. Commenters call it a specialist blog that reports the experimental news in detail.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Particle Physics Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Black Hole Dark Matter4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-04-28
- A new boson at 750 GeV? (Latest LHC results)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15
- /2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-gev-edition.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-05
- /2016/06/black-hole-dark-matter.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-16
- 21cm to Dark Matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-21
- Dark matter discovered??2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-08
What Hacker News says?
"I do not think, we have to discuss which new physics could explain the discrepancy between CDF and the Standard Model - we first have to understand, why the CDF measurement is in strong tension with all others." That's... cute. I doubt it will stop the theorists from flooding the arxiv with explanaitions in the coming days/weeks. Recall what happened when there was a barely 3 sigma (local) statistical fluctuation i…
Comment linking /2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-gev-edition.html
on “Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations”Submitted Higgs in ATLAS, maybe as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI mean, if CMS just hadn't played up their 2.3 sigma excess we probably wouldn't have had the 750 bonanza* so don't pretend there is no blood on the experimental hands :p OPERA is a bit of a special case, but BICEP just straight up declared discovery and wanted the Nobel, have you seen their video of when they tell Linde? * Any time I can, I link to the conclusion : http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2016/06/game-of-th…
Comment linking /2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-gev-edition.html
on “We're Incentivizing Bad Science”Submitted Death of a Forgotten Anomaly as a story · 13 points
HN discussionA spurious signal at LHC (that disappeared in later runs) that spurred a cottage industry of arXiv submissions trying to explain it. Authors, mostly grad students, quickly submitted hundreds of low quality articles trying to get in on the "discovery". Later articles would cite over 400 previous articles and it became one giant circle jerk. There were even blog posts complaining about the blatant "ambulance chasing".…
Comment linking /2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-gev-edition.html
on “Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS”Submitted A new boson at 750 GeV? (Latest LHC results) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt's not censorship, it's just a social seperation of professional concerns. Non-physicists have no chance in hell to understand arxiv papers, in fact most physicists don't have a chance in hell to understand arxiv papers, even the ones from their own field. (I'm saying this as a physicist.) In this case, the MIT TR writes about a bleeding edge, unpublished paper written by a non big-name physicist that will most li…
Comment linking /2010/07/higgs-still-at-large.html
on “Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe”Submitted Why is it when something happens it is ALWAYS you, muons? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAny physicists around to elaborate on the prevailing theories for this? The article isn't exactly heavy on the details... Is this suggested particle something like the muon-equivalent of the Higgs? (edit: I've found http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-new-boson-at-750-g... , which at least has more details and more speculations)
Comment linking /2015/12/a-new-boson-at-750-gev.html
on “Hints of an unexpected new particle could be confirmed within days”Submitted A new boson at 750 GeV? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/08/higgs-wont-come-out-... for discussion. Basically, it's possible, but requires physics beyond the Standard Model.
Comment linking /2011/08/higgs-wont-come-out-of-closet-part-ii.html
on “RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence)”Submitted Hail the Xenon Excess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's an utterly misleading headline. The Higgs boson is not excluded in the mass range 115-145 GeV, and there won't be enough evidence for a null result (or discovery) until at least November. More context here: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/08/higgs-wont-come-out-...
Comment linking /2011/08/higgs-wont-come-out-of-closet-part-ii.html
on “RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence)”Submitted After the hangover as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://resonaances.blogspot.com/2016/06/black-hole-dark-matt... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jnY74NBc7ic/V2UcuCswL-I/AAAAAAAAB7... The odds are still very low on MACHO's as a source of most dark matter.
Comment linking /2016/06/black-hole-dark-matter.html
on “LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger”Submitted New Limits on Neutrino Masses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor a writeup of this that includes some gasp! physics, see the excellent Résonaances blog http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/11/lhcb-has-evidence-of... For something slightly more comprehensible than that, but a lot more useful than bloody wired, try Sean Carroll: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/11/14/... For more LHC/higgs gossip see this recent article from Not Even Wrong http://www.math.c…
Comment linking /2011/11/lhcb-has-evidence-of-new-physics-maybe.html
on “LHC May Have Found Crack in Modern Physics”Submitted A new boson at 750 GeV? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLying about the contents of your talk so you can insult members of a selection comitte that didn’t pick you is not a good way to get a contract renewed, who would have known? Strumia must have really let his victory of the 750 GeV iron throne* dictate his sense of entitlement. *: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-...
Comment linking /2016/06/game-of-thrones-750-gev-edition.html
on “CERN cuts ties with 'sexist' scientist Alessandro Strumia”Submitted Dark matter discovered?? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wish I had good recommendations for you. Quanta can be quite good, but it misses sometimes. Most coverage of fundamental physics, especially theory, fails (for obvious reasons) to provide the key context that progress in the field is very slow and getting slower. There are a few excellent specialist blogs, like Resonaances for particle physics, http://resonaances.blogspot.com/ but they are not very accessible to o…
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on “Welcome to the New Space Age”Submitted Résonaances: Death of a Forgotten Anomaly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore discussion, back from the data release announcement in April: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-somet... (Warning, extremely jargon heavy, particularly the comments.)
Comment linking /2021/04/why-is-it-when-something-happens-it-is.html
on “The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)”Submitted 21cm to Dark Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, why not? As many point out it has interesting engineering challenges, and gives particle physicists something to do.. However, maybe there is nothing to do after all. One wonders if this is a last hail mary for those clinging to super symmetric particle theories or maybe for multiple higgs ideas. Or just for a job. There doesnt seem any sound reason to me to think the particle desert isnt real and wont stretch…
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on “CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conceptual Design Report [pdf]”Submitted Where were we? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://resonaances.blogspot.com/2009/12/cdms-live.html "18:20 Summarizing, no discovery. Just a hint of a signal but with a very low statistical significance. Was fun anyway." As the newspaper article said, a 75% chance of finding new particles.
Comment linking /2009/12/cdms-live.html
on “Has dark matter finally been detected?”Submitted Black Hole Dark Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSeveral hypothetical particles, if they exist, will be found several times faster than they would have been at the previous energy. Many of them are listed here http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-long-until-its-i...
Comment linking /2015/05/how-long-until-its-interesting.html
on “Large Hadron Collider to turn on 'data tap'”Submitted 750 GeV: the bigger picture as a story · 1 points
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