Robert L. Oldershaw

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Do the Kepler K2 mission results tell us something important about exoplanets and stars?

The Kepler K2 mission is conducting a search for exoplanets closer to Earth than was the case for the K1 mission (before technical problems). This allows the mission to do a more careful census of...

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Can Gauge Symmetry Be Explained Conceptually?

Is there a way to explain gauge symmetry/invariance in a completely conceptual and pictorial manner? With no mathematics or abstractions, just physical objects, their motions, and...

12 December 2015 4,675 5 View

If A 750 GEV Boson Exists, Can We Reliably Interpret it?

Given the extreme indirectness that seems to be unavoidable in these matters, i.e., the amazingly short lifetimes and the maze of assumptions that go into reverse modeling from observed familiar...

12 December 2015 1,627 2 View

Do we have a good explanation for the fundamental empirical fact that nature is organized hierarchically?

I don't think this question requires any further details. To me it seems like a crucial question that is almost completely avoided in theoretical physics.

04 April 2015 7,629 4 View