Physics: Faster-Than-Light Signals and Special Relativity; popular science articles by Ashtekar

Two things to link: The frenzy about findings and non-findings at the LHC pose a good reason to think about the possible implications. Therefore, an article by R.Geroch on the consistency of faster than light signals (e.g. neutrinos measured at the LHC) and special relativity (for example, due to partially breaking Lorentz invariance for neutrinos, but not all the other particles). There is also a blog post on FTL-neutrinos.

Moreover there is a bunch of popular science articles by A.Ashtekar (who is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity).

Contemporary Physics

Just some physics stuff from recent news: An article at wired about recent findings at lhc/cern regarding the charge party violation and a confirmation about the (too) fast neurino measurements at the lhc.

The ATLAS experiment @ LHC

http://www.nonequilibrium.net/256-video-fo-day-atlas-experiment/

Check this video

Great pictures of the Large Hadron Collider

See

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

for some great pictures. Enjoy!