... am endlessly baffled by modern society. We have reality TV stars whose only talent is to shock and annoy, and yet inexplicably have millions of adoring fans. We also have sports superstars who get paid tens of millions of dollars to play a game they love, and yet they still get elevated to God-like
Posted by Astroengine.com
... heard the news from CERN regarding the discovery of a new particle that exhibits “Higgs-like” qualities. Particle physics isn't the easiest discipline to wrap one's head around, and while we've recently shared some simplified explanations of what exactly a Higgs boson is, well…here's
Posted by Universe Today
... At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the
Posted by Slacker Astronomy
... understanding of nature,” CERN director general Rolf Heuer told scientists and media at a conference near Geneva on July 4,
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... am just back from STFC's media event covering what did, in the end, turn out to be the discovery of a particle that appears to be the long-predicted Higgs boson, the last component in the Standard Model of Particle Physics to be discovered, and in many ways its linchpin. Via a mechanism known as spontaneous symmetry breaking (first applied to so-called gauge theories of particle physics in a set of 1964 papers by Higgs himself, Imperial's Tom Kibble with Guralnik and Hagen, as well as Brout and
Posted by Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
Yes, the Higgs boson has been discovered… or, to put it more accurately, something that looks like a Higgs boson has been discovered. But is it a Higgs boson? There's a very high probability that it is, but in the world where theory meets high-energy physics, it pays to be completely sure about what you're
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... At a seminar held at CERN1Âtoday as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics
Posted by In The Dark
... official announcement from CERN in regards to its hunt for the Higgs, some of you may be wondering, “what's a Higgs?” And for that matter, what's a boson? The video above, released a couple of months ago by the talented Jorge Cham at PHDcomics, gives
Posted by Universe Today
... an announcement from CERN at a special seminar tomorrow (Wednesday 4th July) at 9am CEST, which is
Posted by In The Dark
... entertaining description of CERN, the “Mecca for physicists” and home of the famous Large Hadron Collider. (Hopefully it will tide you over until the latest news is presented on July 4 regarding the ongoing hunt for the ever-elusive Higgs field!) Enjoy. “On
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