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Posted By: Bill Matt Srtassler has been busy - 08/31/13 02:08 PM
He has been writing some articles about:

Quantum Fluctuations and Their Energy

Naturalness

The Hierarchy Problem Although this one isn't particularly new, he posted it in 2011.

These are 3 of the biggest problems facing physicists. He gives a pretty good explanation of what the problem is in each case. He doesn't have good answers, there aren't any yet.

Bill Gill
Posted By: Bill S. Re: Matt Srtassler has been busy - 08/31/13 05:02 PM
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He doesn't have good answers


But at least he is honest and admits it.

I've learned a lot from Matt Strassler, and when time permits, he answers even the most naive questions.
Posted By: Orac Re: Matt Srtassler has been busy - 09/01/13 04:46 AM
Haha I always love people worrying about naturalness problems especially scientists smile

Of course outside the world of big hugely expensive colliders there is other in some ways much more important research going on ... my choice for this week

http://phys.org/news/2013-08-fastest-rotating-man-made.html

Originally Posted By: Dr Michael Mazilu

"This system poses fascinating questions with regard to thermodynamics and is a challenging system to model theoretically. The rotation rate is so fast that the angular acceleration at the sphere surface is 1 billion times that of gravity on the Earth surface– it's amazing that the centrifugal forces do not cause the sphere to disintegrate!"


It is a profound question to think about the forces are getting up towards the smallest neutron star and the little molecule is withstanding it??????.

Houston we have/had a problem smile
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