Higgs boson

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Worlds between theory and experiment

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Scicomm Science ATLAS detector experimental physics Heinrich Hertz Higgs boson Isaac Newton Jean Perrin Johannes Kepler Josiah Willard Gibbs Large Hadron Collider leptons Ludwig Boltzmann neutrinos New Physics particle collider particle physics quantum field theory Standard Model of particle physics weakly interacting massive particles

Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a…

Is the Higgs boson doing its job?

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At the heart of particle physics lies the Standard Model, a theory that has stood for nearly half a century as the best description of the subatomic realm. It tells us what particles exist, how they i…

US experiments find hint of a break in the laws of physics

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At 9 pm India time on April 7, physicists at an American research facility delivered a shot in the arm to efforts to find flaws in a powerful theory that explains how the building blocks of the univer…

Writing itself is fantasy

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Culture Ariekei Arrival China Miéville Dune Embassytown Flatland Frank Herbert Harry Potter heptapods Higgs boson higher dimensions hypersphere language linguistics nonlinear storytelling nonlinearity Orson Scott Card sphericity three dimensions time varelse

The symbols may have been laid down on paper or the screen in whatever order but when we read, we read the words one at a time, one after another – linearly. Writing, especially of fiction, is an act…

Peter Higgs, self-promoter

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Culture Science C.R. Hagen Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Englert Francois Englert Gerald Guralnik Gerardus t Hooft Greenpeace Higgs Higgs boson Higgs mechanism Large Hadron Collider particle physics Peter Higgs Philip Warren Anderson Robert Brout Sheldon Cooper The Big Bang Theory Tom Kibble Wolf Prize

I was randomly rewatching The Big Bang Theory on Netflix today when I spotted this gem: Okay, maybe less a gem and more a shiny stone, but still. The screenshot, taken from the third episode of the s…

The not-so-obvious obvious

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Scicomm Science Brian Wansink Cornell University data torturing Higgs boson Ig Nobel Prizes incremental research Large Hadron Collider Marc Abrahams modelling ozone p-hacking Ronald H Coase scientific research statistical significance University of Exeter

If your job requires you to pore through a dozen or two scientific papers every month – as mine does – you'll start to notice a few every now and then couching a somewhat well-known fact in study-…