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The Experiments Trying To Crack Physics' ‘Biggest’ Question: What Is Dark Energy?

Edit IFL Science 02 Feb 2016
Cosmologists were very happy when the Higgs boson was discovered, partly because it’s a manifestation of a “Higgs field” – the first fundamental “scalar field” observed in nature. A scalar field is one that has a value at every point in space-time but no direction ... A wind map, on the other hand, isn’t a scalar field as it has speed and overall direction....

Award-winning early-career physicist is put in the spotlight (IOP - Institute of Physics)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Aug 2015
(Source ... 13 August 2015 ... The title of her PhD was "Scalar Fields and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe", which she completed in 2008 at the University of Cambridge following an MA in maths and an MMath there ... For me it was also helpful to have decided that if I hadn't found a longer term position by a certain point in time I was going to leave the field ... This has led to the field growing enormously in the last decade....

O Pen Wordshops’ Works (University of Winnipeg)

Edit noodls 13 Mar 2015
The creative writing workshop, led by poet Jennifer Still, began with a word.  We all brought a word with us to explore.  I brought the word "inflaton" which is the scalar field (or mechanism) theorized to be responsible for the early rapid expansion of the universe.  I found within the word "inflaton" the word "flat", which ......

Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity turns 100 this year — here’s why it’s still a fundamental part of physics

Edit Business Insider 09 Mar 2015
NASAGeneral relativity predicts that huge objects warp the fabric of space-time around them. See Also. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has held up pretty well after a century out in the world ... [] The nature of gravity ... E = mc2 ... NASA ... [] ... "Another possibility is that there is an evolving scalar field that fills space (like the Higgs field or the inflaton field that drove the rapid early expansion of the universe) ... The future ... .....

General Relativity at 100: Einstein's Famous Theory Has Aged Well

Edit Yahoo Daily News 05 Mar 2015
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has held up pretty well after a century out in the world ... It continues to inspire research into some of the most fundamental unanswered questions in physics and astronomy ... E = mc2 ... "Another possibility is that there is an evolving scalar field that fills space (like the Higgs field or the inflaton field that drove the rapid early expansion of the universe) ... All rights reserved....

Planck Satellite Brings Early Universe into Focus (Kavli Hangout)

Edit Space 16 Feb 2015
The simplest model of inflation requires that the early universe contained what's called a scalar field. This field permeates all of space and is responsible for causing space to expand faster than the speed of light. And, as with all quantum fields, it contains quantum fluctuations ... Now, what is that field exactly? We don't know....

Did Tesla Reincarnate as Patrick Flanagan?

Edit The Examiner 27 Aug 2014
by Sterling D. Allan. Pure Energy Systems News. For a week now, I've been gearing up for my pending appearance tonight on Coast to Coast AM to do a three-hour segment on "Tesla Today" ... He was happy to oblige ... H ... News.Electromagnetic Directory.Atmospheric Electrostatic Energy Directory.Tesla coil Directory.Tesla's Pierce-Arrow PowerPedia.Scalar field theory PowerPedia.Tesla's Flying Machine Directory.Wireless Transmission of Electricity ....

Crisis Or Challenge? The Physics Of Today

Edit National Public Radio 09 Jul 2014
It's common to hear that physics is in crisis; usually when some new mystery pops up or an unexpected event defies current theories ... 1. Dark Energy ... What could cause such a cosmic speed up? Explanations include vacuum energy (the energy of "empty" space), a scalar field somewhat like the Higgs (but much more elusive, meaning almost non-interacting) called quintessence, or the failure of Einstein's theory of gravity ... 2. Dark Matter ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... ....

The Big Bang new cosmic finding is flawed and premature hype

Edit The Examiner 08 Jun 2014
The BICEP-2 findings were incorrect as he published his proof in the “New Astronomy” international journal. Mitra is not alone ... This is due to light scattering from dust and the synchrotron radiation generated by electrons moving around galactic magnetic fields that have been found in our Galaxy ... Steinhardt states that inflation is driven by a hypothetical scalar field, and the properties of inflation can adjust to produce any outcome ... ....

Quarks bonding differently at LHCb

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2014
The strong force binds quarks together to form hadrons. Until last Monday, only two types of hadron were known, but the LHCb experiment at CERN has just proved there is a third way ... CERN ... You’d be right, but it is not easy ... Coda ... ¹ Doing so via the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, which involves interaction with a scalar field, of which the Higgs boson is an excitation, and which aforesaid boson is therefore required to be present, and is ... ....

What Universe Is This, Anyway?

Edit National Public Radio 02 Apr 2014
The most popular protagonist of the inflationary expansion is a scalar field, an entity with properties inspired by the Higgs boson, the one discovered at the LHC in July 2012 ... We don't know if there were scalar fields at the cosmic infancy ... To see how we model inflation with a scalar field, picture a ball rolling downhill ... We do the same with the scalar field....

A glimpse of the early universe through BICEP2

Edit The Hindu 01 Apr 2014
At the same time, it can be easily achieved with the help of scalar fields, which are ubiquitous in theoretical high-energy physics ... It is the quantum fluctuation associated with the scalar fields that sow the seeds of the perturbations, which leave their imprints as anisotropies in the CMB ... The scalar field that drives inflation is often conveniently referred to as the inflaton....

How Did the Universe Begin: Hot Big Bang or Slow Thaw? (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Edit noodls 25 Feb 2014
His theoretical model explains dark energy and the early "inflationary universe with a single scalar field that changes with time, with all masses increasing with the value of this field ... This elementary particle confirmed the physicists' assumption that particle masses do indeed depend on field values and are therefore variable, explains the Heidelberg scientist....
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