Physics before big physics

HYBRID ARTIFICIAL PHYSICS OPTIMIZATION AND BIG BANG-BIG CRUNCH ALGORITHM (HPBA) FOR SIZE OPTIMIZATION OF TRUSS STRUCTURES

Over the past decades, several techniques have been employed to improve the applicability of the metaheuristic optimization methods. One of the solutions for improving the capability of metaheuristic methods is the hybrid of algorithms. This study proposes a new optimization algorithm called HPBA which is based on the hybrid of two optimization algorithms; Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB-BC) inspired b...

Big Data Meets Medical Physics Dosimetry

Medical physicists face a trade-off when planning oncology radiotherapy treatments. The dosimetrist must deliver sufficient dose to kill the diseased tissue while managing the risk of a variety of possible toxicities that may arise from damage to normal tissue. In attempting to address this trade-off, many questions naturally arise. Are there critical sections within organs that should be spare...

Before the Big Bang: an Outrageous New Perspective and Its Implications for Particle Physics

Proposals for describing the initial state of the universe hardly ever address a certain fundamental conundrum [1] — yet this is a conundrum whose significance is, in a certain sense, obvious. The issue arises from one of the most fundamental principles of physics: the Second Law of thermodynamics. According to the Second Law, roughly speaking, the entropy of the universe increases with time, w...

B Physics B Physics

A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?