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Who would have believed it? Every now and then theoretical speculation anticipates experimental observation in physics. It doesn’t happen often, in spite of the romantic notion of theorists sitting in their rooms alone at night thinking great thoughts. Nature usually surprises us. But today, two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva reported convincing evidence for the long sought-after “Higgs” particle, first proposed to exist almost 50 years ago and at the heart of the “standard model” of elementary particle physics—the theoretical formalism that describes three of the four known forces in nature, and which to date agrees with every experimental observation done to date.
- River Out Of Eden And A Universe From Nothing
In a recent reddit Q&A for the movie The Unbelievers, Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss mentioned their favorite books by the other: Lawrence Krauss: My favorite book of Richard's is River Out of Eden. It is the most beautifully...
- Walter Lewin: For The Love Of Physics
On May 16, 2011, Professor of Physics Emeritus Walter Lewin returned to MIT lecture hall 26-100 for a physics talk and book signing, complete with some of his most famous physics demonstrations to celebrate the publication of his new book: For The Love...
- Why Some Physicists Bet Against The Higgs Boson - By Robert Wright
After Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost his bet about the Higgs boson, I wondered why he had been on the wrong side of the bet. Why had he doubted the existence of a particle widely assumed to be an essential constituent of physical reality?...
- Hadron Collider Breakthrough As Beams Collide
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider managed to make two proton beams collide at high energy Tuesday, marking a "new territory" in physics, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The $10 billion research tool has been accelerating...
- Cern Fires Up New Atom Smasher To Near Big Bang
It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. -Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated...
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A Quantum Leap - By Lawrence Krauss
Who would have believed it? Every now and then theoretical speculation anticipates experimental observation in physics. It doesn’t happen often, in spite of the romantic notion of theorists sitting in their rooms alone at night thinking great thoughts. Nature usually surprises us. But today, two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva reported convincing evidence for the long sought-after “Higgs” particle, first proposed to exist almost 50 years ago and at the heart of the “standard model” of elementary particle physics—the theoretical formalism that describes three of the four known forces in nature, and which to date agrees with every experimental observation done to date.
- River Out Of Eden And A Universe From Nothing
In a recent reddit Q&A for the movie The Unbelievers, Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss mentioned their favorite books by the other: Lawrence Krauss: My favorite book of Richard's is River Out of Eden. It is the most beautifully...
- Walter Lewin: For The Love Of Physics
On May 16, 2011, Professor of Physics Emeritus Walter Lewin returned to MIT lecture hall 26-100 for a physics talk and book signing, complete with some of his most famous physics demonstrations to celebrate the publication of his new book: For The Love...
- Why Some Physicists Bet Against The Higgs Boson - By Robert Wright
After Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost his bet about the Higgs boson, I wondered why he had been on the wrong side of the bet. Why had he doubted the existence of a particle widely assumed to be an essential constituent of physical reality?...
- Hadron Collider Breakthrough As Beams Collide
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider managed to make two proton beams collide at high energy Tuesday, marking a "new territory" in physics, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The $10 billion research tool has been accelerating...
- Cern Fires Up New Atom Smasher To Near Big Bang
It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. -Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated...