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particle physics
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What If Reality Isn’t Built from the Bottom Up?
A mysterious 17-order-of-magnitude gap at the foundation of reality challenges our most fundamental scientific principle: that big things are simply the sum of their smaller parts.
How physicists used antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets to solve a 20-year-old mystery
Cindy Arnold, Fermilab Finn Stokes, University of Adelaide Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our…
What an Electron Truly Looks Like
While traditionally visualized as a tiny ball, quantum mechanics describes electrons as fuzzy wave functions, with properties like…
The (Actual) Truth About CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a massive underground science experiment located on the border between France and…
Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe
Harald Fox, Lancaster University Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs…
How Do You Find the Average of Everything?
Finding the “average” of a set of numbers is easy enough to some people, but how do you…
The Theory of (Almost) Everything (For Now)
Elementary particles and fundamental forces weave together the fabric of reality in what scientists call the Standard Model…
Nuclear Physicists Observe Strange Matter Formation for the First Time
Scientists have observed how lambda particles, or “strange matter,” are produced using semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS). The…
Powerful linear accelerator begins smashing atoms – 2 scientists on the team explain how it could reveal rare forms of matter
A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is set to discover thousands of never-before-seen isotopes. Facility for…
An Equation For (Almost) Everything: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
After decades of work from several generations of physicists, we now have our most accurate mathematical depiction of…