BAD HARDWARE WEEK

"Pallab Ghosh of the BBC reports on another piece of evidence hitting the beleaguered Supersymmetry community. Scientists at the Lepton Photon conference in Mumbai, India confirmed that extra levels of B-Meson decay have not been found in the LHC beauty experiment. Coming on the heels of a March report in Nature , this news seems to reinforce what many have suspected all along. Dark Matter is probably not explainable through massive shadow particles like squarks and selectrons, and for all practical purposes, the Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model of Physics is dead."

BAD HARDWARE WEEK: On illusions. By the end of 19th century everything in physics was almost discovered, and physics house built seemingly forever based on absolute premises. Only one experiment was a problem. Michelson Morley experiment proving there is no ether. Solving that problem by special theory of relativity gave us a big new undiscovered world of physics. IT IS GOOD to have a problem in physics ! Another cloud on a clear sky was ultraviolet catastrophe, that later born quantum theory. Einstein  has gotten a Nobel prize just for solving ultraviolet catastrophe problem  in a photoelectric effect. However, never for contribution to theory of relativity or gravity.