Particle physics is the study of particles interacting through forces.
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But the world of particle physics looks quite different now.
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Accelerating particles is for more than just dense particle physics.
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They can become supernovae observatories or perform other particle physics measurements.
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Nearly all particle physics experiments work this way to some extent.
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Image: YouTube ScreenshotThere are lots of secret fans of particle physics.
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And any progress in identifying dark matter could revolutionize particle physics.
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He received a doctoral degree in theoretical particle physics from Northwestern.
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The LHC belongs to the world's leading particle-physics laboratory, CERN.
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How did you get into this niche between particle physics and astronomy?
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The last thirty years of particle physics have been a little disappointing.
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Take, for example, the page for the electroweak interaction in particle physics.
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I cannot stress this enough: Thunderstorms are amazing marvels of particle physics.
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My research has mainly been in particle physics, cosmology and theoretical astrophysics.
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There was no statement from particle physics on the number of generations.
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In particle physics the biggest news was of dogs that did not bark.
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Five-year-olds and particle physics don't usually go in the same sentence together.
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It would also be the first particle beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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So no, the future of particle physics doesn't seem to be set in stone.
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They're inactivating the bacteria using equipment normally reserved for particle physics—an electron beam.
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You have done so much to help establish the Standard Model of particle physics.
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I was lucky enough to get hired to work in a particle physics lab.
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With the discoveries of the LHC, the standard model of particle physics is complete.
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A victim of its own success, particle physics has come to a turning point.
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And, of course, particle physics is an exploratory and discovery-focused field of science.
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But you could probe the vacuum, as particle physics does, and discover its properties.
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From particle physics to cosmology, we see that the universe operates well without purpose.
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The trouble is, a "prediction" in particle physics is today little more than guesswork.
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QUANTA MAGAZINE: What was it like entering the field of particle physics in the 1960s?
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There are three types of neutrinos in the Standard Model, the blueprint of particle physics.
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And Doug at that time was looking for a student with some particle physics training.
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There's another reason wartime steel transitioned so well into particle physics, aside from cost-cutting.
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But wartime parts continue to play a crucial role in particle physics experiments, even today.
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That description—the Standard Model of particle physics—constitutes physicists' best current explanation for everything.
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The next big discovery in particle physics might just be hiding in this esoteric calculation.
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It is here that we find the two "standard models," of particle physics and cosmology.
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Unfortunately for him, workers at the European particle physics laboratory had already tossed its remains.
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But as is generally the case with particle physics, the story is far from over.
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They've turned into these amazing machines, which now we can bring back to particle physics.
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Today, the situation in particle physics is the opposite of that in the postwar boom.
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We are still in the infancy of particle physics, and there is much more to learn.
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Particle physics is about how those very small particles relate to each other, decay, work, gel.
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Well, today at 4:20PM (nice), America is breaking ground on another enormous particle physics experiment.
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Similarly, moving inward, we navigate the subjects of biology, biochemistry, and atomic, nuclear and particle physics.
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It will take many more experiments like these to unravel the mysteries of particle physics.[CERN]
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One of the biggest discrepancies in particle physics at the moment is the g-2 experiment.
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Particle physics and genomics, both of which often involve huge transnational teams, are particularly guilty here.
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If you like particle physics, dinky parodies, and Howie Day, this is the video for you.
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It's one way to engage the public without mentioning things like particle physics and the multiverse.
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And, given the current state of particle physics research, something unexplained would have been fucking fantastic.
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Dr. Gianotti earned her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Milan in 20043.
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Photo: Farrin Abbott/SLAC (Flickr)If you're a history buff, you might not know much particle physics.
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The LHC discovered the Higgs boson, the last particle predicted by particle physics' rulebook, the Standard Model.
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DUNE prototypes at CERN (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum)Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavor.
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A computer reconstruction of the stuff LHCb detects (Image: CERN)Conceptually, particle physics experiments are surprisingly simple.
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Most extensions of our main theory of particle physics, called the Standard Model, say this is true.
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Paul Sutter is a cosmological researcher at Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics.
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Fermilab is America's flagship particle physics laboratory and it is located about 40 miles west of Chicago.
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Carly was now finishing a Ph.D. in particle physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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It drew comparisons to the cancellation of the Superconducting Supercollider that ended American supremacy in particle physics.
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And if that worked for particle physics, Dr. Palmer thinks, it can work for climate science too.
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He groaned ever after when people mistakenly inferred that particle physics was somehow related to Eastern philosophy.
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Dr. Berryman, also 28, is a postdoctoral associate in theoretical particle physics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
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Dr. Berryman, also 353, is a postdoctoral associate in theoretical particle physics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
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She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a doctoral degree in particle physics from Boston University.
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Or maybe the electric field inside of the thundercloud begins to accelerate particles, like a particle physics experiment.
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The current state of particle physics is sort of like a partially explored cave with a shadowy regions.
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Particles uncover a hidden void in the Great Pyramid of GizaIt's rare that Egyptology and particle physics mix.
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He went on to make important discoveries in particle physics, geophysics and even the science of the stars.
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Benedikt said that these works are a confirmation that the particle physics community is interested in such an experiment.
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He bounced around (Cornell, Caltech, particle physics, nuclear physics) before landing at Columbia in 2004, in pursuit of astrophysics.
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And if this all feels like some esoteric particle physics, it's actually quite important for nuclear reactors in general.
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But just think, particle physics uses a p-value of p=0.0000003, according to a Scientific American blog post.
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A favorite dark matter candidate emerged, not from astronomy, but from particle physics: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs.
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The team used over a decade of old data that other particle physics experiments normally would have thrown out.
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He's talking about particle physics—and the decline and fall of this year's most-exciting-discovery-that-was-not.
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Some scientists think the signal may have come from something unexplained by the currently understood rules of particle physics.
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The second reason for the popularity of the WIMP idea is that it explained a mystery in particle physics.
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Well, particle physics jobs positions are incredibly competitive, according to Science reporting, so clearly, students want to do it.
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Some versions of the rules of particle physics says this behavior could help explain where all the antimatter went.
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Detente opened the door to cooperation between U.S. and Chinese institutions in fields ranging from forestry to particle physics.
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It is supporting scores of Imperial academics' European collaborations in fields like data privacy, particle physics and cancer prevention.
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One team at CERN works on planning the future of particle physics, beyond the expected lifespan of the LHC.
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The composition of dark matter, however, is still considered to be one of the biggest questions in particle physics.
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His illustrations brought drama to ideas that children might find difficult, like particle physics and the speed of light.
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That's of crucial importance to particle physics so other experimenters don't have to look for the same kinds of particles.
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Here's the particle physics background you'll need to understand the new results: There are six charged subatomic particles called quarks.
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From powerful new rockets and asteroid-sampling spacecraft to groundbreaking particle physics, there's plenty to look forward to in 2018.
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A Wrinkle in Time interweaves science (tesseracts are explained using particle physics and geometry) with fantasy (there are space centaurs).
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That, at least, is what British physicist Brian Cox, Advanced Fellow of particle physics at the University of Manchester, thinks.
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The CERN Axion Solar Telescope certainly lacks the stuffy vibe stereotypical of other particle physics experiments—but that makes sense.
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That's a mouthful—so it's best to think of it as a central component to the American particle physics laboratory.
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After the war, he earned a PhD in particle physics at Columbia University, where he then became a faculty member.
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I've trained with astronauts at NASA and visited a particle physics lab buried deep in a northern Ontario nickel mine.
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If particle physics went down the linear-collider route, which of these machines would come out on top is moot.
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Dr. Steigman was one of the ringleaders of cosmology in an era in which astronomy and particle physics were merging.
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Then there are more modern branches, such as particle physics, which seeks to understand the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
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Typically, particle physics experiments use oscillating electric fields, called radiofrequency cavities, and high-powered magnets to accelerate particles to high energies.
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But she is big on Twitter and does work on the boundary between particle physics and astrophysics, mainly investigating dark matter.
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When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein's general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction.
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This would be a very big deal, because the Standard Model of particle physics only allows for three types of neutrinos.
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The researchers haven't found axions in their latest paper, but in particle physics, not finding stuff can sometimes be equally exciting.
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Uhlenbeck's contributions to gauge theory has also led to improvements in models used in particle physics, string theory, and general relativity.
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Within that framework there are many different ways to talk about the world, from particle physics to why it all matters.
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In March of 1989, the World Wide Web was but a newborn, conceived and implemented by the particle physics research community.
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After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics experiments contradicted it, the Irvine team determined that the beryllium-212 anomaly is "beautifully" explained by the presence of a previously unknown "vector boson"—a type of particle that would wield a little-felt fifth force of nature.
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The English actor, who continued his education while filming Game of Thrones, has some rather advanced hobbies: particle physics and classical piano.
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Since Maxwell, others have found that monopoles might make some particle physics ideas used to explain our strange Universe look much cleaner.
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A deep-learning algorithm, which was originally designed for particle-physics experiments at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, does the heavy lifting.
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CAST with a box of Axion detergent (Image: CERN)FERNEY-VOLTAIRE, FRANCE— Some particle physics experiments are easier to ride than others.
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Using strips of plastic scintillator pioneered and produced at Fermilab, America's flagship particle physics laboratory, researchers were able to scan the reactor.
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PIP-II will "enable other particle physics experiments for many decades," Lia Merminga, the director of the project from Fermilab, told Gizmodo.
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The 1950s and 60s were a Golden Age of particle physics, as accelerators produced a plethora of new particles with unpredictable properties.
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He was then 20113 years into a highly regarded academic career in nuclear and particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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We also see no bulk quantities of antimatter left in the universe today, though it is produced in certain particle physics interactions.
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But if you're an instant-gratification kind of person, particle physics is not for you, since the most important discoveries took years.
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The Higgs addresses some of the most fundamental questions in particle physics, like why some particles that should be massless actually have mass.
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The LHC's most notable achievement was discovering the Higgs boson, the last particle predicted by the Standard Model, the blueprint of particle physics.
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But particle physics requires all sorts of different experiments, looking for particles of lots of different masses and lots of different interaction strengths.
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While it's free, explained Jonathan Lewis, associate head of Fermilab's particle physics division, shipping the steel to the experiment can be quite expensive.
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It validated a half-century of research about the basic building blocks of matter, and remains the crowning achievement of modern particle physics.
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The signal they found lurking in that data meets the so-called "five-sigma" threshold — the gold standard for discovery in particle physics.
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His father was a passionate fan of particle physics, since one of the country's two Nobel Prize winners was particle physicist Abdus Salam.
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Signe split the next year between reporting on particle physics at CERN for Symmetry Magazine and a fellowship at Wired before joining GigaOm.
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These molecules act like a particle physics version spinning tops, which the researchers manipulate with lasers inside of an electric and magnetic field.
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In Newport News, legislators have begun securing land for JLab and are planning to excite the community with public particle physics education sessions.
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The most fundamental theories we currently have—the standard model of particle physics and Albert Einstein's general relativity—are beautiful in specific ways.
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In 1963 he also took a position at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, one of the leading particle physics laboratories in the world.
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There are four heavier quarks that mainly appear in particle physics experiments and exotic places in the universe: the charm, strange, top, and bottom.
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Bill Foster (D-Illinois) (and not that Bill Foster) holds a Ph.D in physics and worked in high energy particle physics at Illinois' Fermilab.
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And, finally, the Standard Model of particle physics captures all known components of matter and radiation in just four forces and 17 elementary particles.
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The CLOUD chamber at CERN (Image: CERN)Weather is probably harder to understand than particle physics, given the numerous complexities that influence Earth's atmosphere.
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Nothing unusual showed up in the measurement—it was in line with what the main particle physics theory, the Standard Model, would have predicted.
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These energies are high by particle standards—the proton normally weighs approximately 1 giga electron-volt (energies and masses are equivalent in particle physics).
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We must, in other words, invent an extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics that has escaped detection at the Large Hadron Collider.
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The answers did reveal some overarching trends, however, including developments in machine intelligence/learning, microbiology and virology, brain science, genetics, cosmology, and particle physics.
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Zelda is a graphically-intensive game loaded with all kinds of breathtaking views and particle physics that can grind a processor to a halt.
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The discovery, in 1974, was known as the November Revolution, a coup that led to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Glueballs are particles that consist solely of gluons that are extremely hard to measure, but are predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
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He added there were also plans to expand the brand from particle physics to building games about quantum physics, chemistry, biology and even geography.
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Fermilab is America's leading particle physics laboratory and it has embarked on an ambitious plan to lead neutrino research for the next few decades.
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All it might take is one, marked in pencil or ink with a unique scribble, to set particle physics off on its next adventure.
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"It was literally putting two and two together," said Paul Schaffer, an associate lab director at TRIUMF, a particle physics research facility in Vancouver.
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Over the last 100 years, characterizing solar neutrinos and dark matter was considered to be one of the most important tasks of particle physics.
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"It took physicists 40 years to understand solar neutrinos and it's been one of the most interesting puzzles in particle physics," D'Angelo told me.
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This is all a headache for the practitioners of particle physics—a field in which experiments are notoriously expensive and take decades to build.
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To explain why hydrogen emits both colors, physicists developed the new theory of quantum electrodynamics, which forms the basis of particle physics theory today.
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Science is knocking on heaven's door, as the Harvard physicist Lisa Randall put it in the title of her recent book about particle physics.
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But half a century later, the still futile quest to identify this "dark matter" is a burning question for both particle physics and astronomy.
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Every major discovery in the Standard Model of particle physics, perhaps the crowning achievement of 20th-century physics, was awarded a Nobel, except one.
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Ms. Shield, who studies nuclear engineering, and Vetri Velan, who studies particle physics, have teamed up to draw attention to the tax bill provision.
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Star physicist Richard Feynman famously described an example of it that cropped up in one of the most rigorous areas of sciences, particle physics.
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Based on the Standard Model of particle physics, matter and antimatter should have been completely annihilated in the early universe, leaving only photons left over.
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It's an important discovery for astronomers, but the newly recorded object is also providing an unprecedented opportunity to conduct particle physics research from a distance.
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Some view the present state of particle physics with a rather bleak outlook, but that's not how the younger physicists I speak with generally feel.
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The ISOLDE experiment will receive the portable antimatter (Image: CERN)The antimatter of science fiction vastly differs from the real-life antimatter of particle physics.
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And yet, according to the reigning theory of particle physics, the proton should interact with the muon and the electron in exactly the same way.
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It matches the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics, the rock-solid but probably incomplete blueprint of the Universe on the smallest scales.
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Matt Herndon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor, said he taught Christensen in his undergraduate particle physics class during the 2011-2012 school year.
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One scenario will open up physics to a new world of understanding about the universe; the other could end particle physics as we know it.
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American high-energy physicists, for example, constitute the largest national cohort at the Large Hadron Collider, the international center for particle physics, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Researchers have already begun looking for evidence of the protophobic boson in existing data from LHCb, a particle physics experiment at Europe's Large Hadron Collider.
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"All of our knowledge about the visible world can be described by the so-called Standard Model of particle physics," Krasznahorkay said in an email.
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After all, he'd just won a wager after scientists had just announced their Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider particle physics experiment in Switzerland.
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Not long before, the outlines of the modern Standard Model of particle physics had emerged and with it a new level of clarity about fundamental interactions.
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Traditional grant-makers sometimes respond, for instance, to trendy science topics because they are trendy, or to scientific research with bonus defense applications (hi, particle physics).
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If neutrinos are lighter than that, physicists will need more sensitive experiments to close in on its mass and resolve the particle physics and cosmology questions.
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ON JULY 4th 2012 news of the discovery of the Higgs boson by researchers at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory, electrified science and the wider public.
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In particular, an extra dimension which behaves like space (instead of like time) but is compact rather than infinite features in many theories of particle physics.
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From video lectures about particle physics to step-by-step tutorials about starting urban farms — there are so many ways to learn more about, well, everything.
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The discovery helped lay the foundation for the so-called Standard Model of particle physics, a theory that classifies and describes the interactions of subatomic particles.
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While 12 of the panels deal with research-centric topics like cosmology, galaxies, particle physics, and "electromagnetic observations from space," the 13th panel is about people.
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This tantalizing possibility, which would have dramatic implications for particle physics and cosmology, is explored in a paper published on the arXiv preprint server this week.
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It is correct that some technological developments, like strong magnets, benefit from these particle colliders and that particle physics positively contributes to scientific education in general.
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AWAKE still relies on protons created in CERN's large rings, but "wakefield" accelerators like these could become a game-changing technology for the future of particle physics.
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Using this Todd function, he hoped to explain something in particle physics called the fine-structure constant, which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between particles.
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At CERN, a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, three teams of researchers are applying different methods to answer the same question: does antimatter fall down, or up?
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The LHC (one of the detectors of which is pictured above, under construction) is the principal machine at CERN, the world's biggest particle-physics laboratory, near Geneva.
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Scientists have probed Egypt's mysterious Great Pyramid of Giza with tools of modern particle physics and say they have discovered a hidden "void" within its ancient walls.
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Among the many awards Dr. Kibble received was the American Physical Society's J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, for his work on the Higgs mechanism.
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In the 1970s, physicists conceptualized the Standard Model of particle physics, which posited that everything in the universe was made out of a handful of fundamental particles.
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The result of this effort has been one of the most successful, most tested scientific ideas of all time: the Standard Model of particle physics (see chart).
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This precision has another fascinating aspect: Normally in particle physics experiments, the key to discoveries is to concentrate an incredible amount of energy in a small space.
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Particle physics is so complicated that it was like trying to understand a foreign language, particularly since high school physics was 25 years in the rearview mirror.
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In the 260s, he writes, Americans ceded the exploration of the inner universe — particle physics — to Europe and the particle accelerator at its nuclear research center, CERN.
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Essentially, some of particle physics' woes and theories currently fixed with bandaids would make a whole lot more sense if we found an entirely new set of particles.
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This theory of quark interactions, called quantum chromodynamics, better matched experimental data and soon became one of the three pillars of the reigning Standard Model of particle physics.
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A next-generation collider would make lots of these Higgs bosons, in order to understand the particle's properties and help scientists decide the future direction of particle physics.
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Some think more of these incidents have occurred since CERN was established, and suggest that its particle physics experiments are causing the world to shift into parallel universes.
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Machine learning may be the tool de jour for everything from particle physics to recreating the human voice, but it's not exactly the easiest field to get into.
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Photo: The XENON collaborationA detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help physicists establish important truths about our Universe.
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The tool allows developers a lot of control over particle physics for something like an explosion or fire and will eventually be replacing the engine's existing Cascade system.
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JDA uses deep-learning algorithms developed by Blue Yonder, a German startup it acquired that originally created the software for particle-physics experiments at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.
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But the guys that made Angry Birds is trying to change that with the launch of Big Bang Legends, its new game that introduces particle physics concepts to kids.
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In this case, scientists only wanted to measure the highest energy neutrinos, those with far more energy than anything created in particle physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider.
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Yesterday's announcement felt different—accomplished British-Lebanese mathematician Michael Atiyah claimed he had proven the 1373-year-old Riemann hypothesis while attempting to understand another problem in particle physics.
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Despite its name, The ABCs of Particle Physics is a survey of more than just particles—it's got pages about black holes, galaxies, inflation and even you, yes you!
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"Much of what we currently understand about particle physics was invented by Murray Gell-Mann," says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech, where Gell-Mann taught for decades.
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Screenshot: AT&T Road To Climate ResilianceThe simulations were done on supercomputers like Argonne's Theta computer which was previously used to map brain neurons and peering into particle physics.
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JANET CONRAD: The Standard Model of particle physics has done very well in predicting what's going on, but there's a great deal it can't explain—for example, dark matter.
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The Higgs Boson completed the so-called standard model of particle physics — the model that explains the fundamental forces, except gravity, and describes all the particles we know of.
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But in many scientific fields – theoretical particle physics is a good example – grants are far smaller, even though the number of papers published per year is about the same.
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The field of particle physics has been rife with competition since 1932 when Ernest Lawrence ran the first cyclotron, a simple particle accelerator, at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Dirac later removed the disagreement between special relativity and quantum mechanics, which led to the development of the quantum field theories which we still use in particle physics today.
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It found that most scientists on the committees — whether they were men or women, and whether they worked in particle physics or political science — unconsciously associated science with men.
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Particle physics tells us that the more we closely look at an object, the less objective and more dependent that object is on the observer and behavior of other objects.
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Those are just a few of the particle physics lessons your kids will get from Symmetry Magazine's new lovely, animated alphabet book that gives them an early start on science.
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Like many of my age cohort of particle physics researchers, I collaborated in the discovery of the top quark in 1995, the Higgs boson in 2012, and now today's announcement.
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This concerns the Standard Model of particle physics, a handy self-consistent description of the particles and forces that make up much of our reality, but not all of it.
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As much as we hear about these protons and neutrons, scientists still know very little about them, said Berndt Mueller, associate laboratory director for nuclear and particle physics at Brookhaven.
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For instance, no one is denying major theories such as the standard model of particle physics, the germ theory of disease, general relativity, lunar origins, continental drift or Mendelian genetics.
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By the time he entered the profession, Dr. Weinberg and others had completed the Standard Model, a set of equations that explained most of particle physics but left out gravity.
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The results hinted that the usual picture of particle physics, in which particles move and interact in space and time, might not be the deepest description of what is happening.
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WIMPs have been popular because not only would the particles account for the majority of astrophysical observations, they pop out naturally from hypothesized extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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The two left behind promising research in particle physics, researching the creation of Dark Matter in the bowels of underground Chinese bunkers, to develop what they call a "Google for sound".
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The last major instrument sent to the space station -- an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer that's mounted on the side to facilitate particle physics experiments -- was sent on a shuttle in May 2011.
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Today's various machine learning systems can already provide unexpected insights in varying fields, from personalization technologies to particle physics, from cooking recipes and outlandish game moves to crime prevention and bioengineering.
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"The loss of the 750 GeV diphoton resonance is a big blow to the particle physics community," Adam Falkowski, a particle physicist who blogs at Resonaances under the pseudonym Jester, wrote.
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Image: symmetry magazineThe ABCs of Particle Physics was published by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who jointly run symmetry magazine, and the hardcover version only costs 10.99.
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DESERT DISCOVERY: LOST TEMPLE OF RAMSES II UNCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS Scientists involved in the pyramid scanning called the find a "breakthrough" that highlighted the usefulness of modern particle physics in archaeology.
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CP violation has never been observed in an quark with a charge of 2/3, even though it's predicted to exist by the rules of particle physics, called the Standard Model.
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Currently, we have what's known as the Standard Model of particle physics—which includes all the known particles like quarks and the electron, as well as the forces that govern them.
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Modern particle physics experiments involve hundreds or thousands of researchers and many in the Goldilocks cohort can make the same claim -- not too old and not too young, but just right.
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After 17 years as a visiting scientist at CERN, the epicenter of particle physics, she couldn't put up with what she describes as CERN's refusal to hire and promote women anymore.
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But hopes that the "proton radius puzzle" would upend particle physics and reveal new laws of nature have now been dashed by a new measurement reported on September 6 in Science.
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Trilobites A new medical scanner, derived from technology used by particle physics researchers at CERN, "is like the upgrade from black-and-white film to color," one of its developers said.
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It was in March of 1989 that an unpublished manuscript entitled "Information Management: A Proposal" was submitted to the publication office of CERN, which is Europe's flagship particle physics research laboratory.
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For organisations such as film studios and particle-physics laboratories, which need to archive humongous amounts of information indefinitely, the ratio of the two ratios, as it were, may soon favour DNA.
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The English actor, who used the time off from his character's absence from Thrones last season to concentrate on his school exams, has some rather advanced hobbies: particle physics and classical piano.
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Founded by former particle physics researchers, Noah Shutty and Scott Stephenson, the idea for the startup originally came about because Shutty wanted a better way to search through its own audio files.
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Aside from a few unexplained observations (meddling neutrinos!), the Standard Model, which describes interactions between all known particles, has exactly predicted the outcome of every experiment in the history of particle physics.
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Scientists dream that one day, these laser-plasma accelerators could shrink particle physics experiments to the point that they no longer require enormous infrastructure projects like the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
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Back in 2015, some grad students and a science writer at the particle physics lab CERN (hi Sarah!) wrote a silly (and oh-so-nerdy) parody of that Howie Day song, Collide.
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Shaw and Davis will present the festival's keynote speeches; Shaw's will be on particle physics studies in developing countries, and Davis' will be on his work on molecular biology, bioinformatics, and art.
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"A discovery of [neutrinoless double beta] decay would have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of particle physics and cosmology," the researchers write in the paper, published today in the journal Nature.
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He helped to develop the idea of quarks, while making significant contributions to the standard model of particle physics, which is used for explaining and predicting a wide variety of physical phenomena.
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Within mere minutes of speaking to him, he's brought up English occultist Aleister Crowley, musician Genesis P-Orridge, and particle physics, before his cup of tea's even had time to grow cold.
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That's the real story of the real Chernobyl, where for once the basic truths of the natural world — of chemistry and particle physics — overwhelmed the enforced truths of Soviet orthodoxy and propaganda.
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However, "Hawking radiation" had very deep implications for mathematical physics – indeed one of the main achievements of a theoretical framework for particle physics called string theory has been to corroborate his idea.
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Others have rallied around the axion, another subatomic particle that would simultaneously explain the missing dark matter and solve a separate problem in particle physics regarding the force that holds atomic nuclei together.
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They could be holding secrets beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, answer fundamental questions about why there's more matter than antimatter, or even be used to observe the weirdest phenomena in space.
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Graduate school at MIT showed me the way to astrophysics — how it can be an amazing route to many questions, including how the universe looks, how it functions, and even particle physics questions.
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If you've ever gone star-gazing at a planetarium, or explored the deepest corners of the universe in a virtual reality simulation, you might have already experienced Van der Zalm's particle physics algorithm.
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The short, rhyming collection of basic particle physics concepts "will lead you to minuscule particles, high-tech equipment, far-out phenomena and fascinating theories" write the book's authors, Lauren Biron and Chris Smith.
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Not only is such evidence very difficult to gather in areas like cosmology or particle physics, but also the tools we have for interpreting the evidence are very often a matter of perspective.
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Among his many scientific contributions, the Nobel laureate will be remembered for bringing order to the chaotic field of particle physics, and for coining the term "quark"—a fundamental building block of matter.
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The year was 1989, and Berners-Lee, a former trainspotter turned physicist turned self-taught computer scientist, was working at CERN, the famed particle physics lab in Switzerland, as a computer research fellow.
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"Had the bump been real, it would have without a doubt been the most important discovery in particle physics in the past half century," said Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State University.
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At the age of only 24, he had an insight that proved the equivalency between two seemingly disparate theories of particle physics that would lead three of his colleagues to a Nobel Prize.
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There has long been speculation that protons may change in size depending on context, and confirmation of that would lead to a trove of unknown interactions that would upend the particle physics world.
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Plus: A special prize in fundamental physics announced in August went to Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen for their development of "supergravity," which combines elements of particle physics and gravity.
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Her work on the strong CP problem and other contributions to particle physics have been recognized with prestigious awards including the Dirac Medal, the J.J. Sakurai Prize, the Klein Medal and the Compton Medal.
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That's because the areas of particle physics with applications have largely all been explored — and the remaining areas would be exceptionally hard to mine for real-world applications, even if we discovered something unexpected.
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Their discovery could unlock new realms in particle physics and perhaps shed light, so to speak, on the quest to understand the dark matter that suffuses space and provides the gravitational scaffolding for galaxies.
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Now that the L.H.C. is being upgraded and particle physics experiments at the detector are taking a break, it's time for particle physicists to step back and reflect on the state of the field.
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Felicia the Ferret, who is somewhat of a low key celebrity in the physics community, was used to help physicists clean 300-foot-pipes in particle accelerators at Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory in Illinois.
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CMS was built by scientists from around the world, but the parts that you see on the screen exist because of important contributions by my colleagues and me at Fermilab, America's leading particle physics laboratory.
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In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.
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DUNE will be based at two locations: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which is America's flagship particle physics laboratory located just outside Chicago, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), located in Lead, South Dakota.
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"The same idea [from physics] that there's no special orientation—they wanted to get that into neural networks," said Kyle Cranmer, a physicist at New York University who applies machine learning to particle physics data.
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"We introduced such a new particle, which nobody saw before, and [whose] existence could not be understood by the widely accepted 'Standard Model' of particle physics, so it faced scrutiny," Krasznahorkay said in an email.
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The first was the "Taught Me Science Fallacy," which goes something like this: Isaac Asimov writes about science and particle physics, so if I read the Foundation trilogy, I might learn what a neutrino is.
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Cooperation between U.S. and Chinese governments on a particle physics project known as the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, for example, involves the National University of Defense Technology but doesn't pose major security threats, ASPI said.
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Particle physics experiments create so much data that they have triggers—initial detectors simply to tell the experiment to keep all of the data in the collision or throw it all away, based on predetermined parameters.
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The Planck scale, the infinitesimal size scale in which quantum gravity is thought to rule, is 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the weak scale, the neighborhood of particle physics explored in the Large Hadron Collider.
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That said, we can't rule out the possibility that another civilization somewhere in the universe has a more advanced particle physics program than ours and achieves heavy ion collision energies higher than those of the LHC.
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Named after physicist Peter Higgs, one of the scientists who first proposed its existence in the 1960s, the Higgs boson fits within the Standard Model of particle physics, which explains the building blocks of the universe.
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Buried nearly a mile underground to protect it from the noisy cosmic rays that bathe the Earth, Gran Sasso is home to a number of particle physics experiments that are probing the foundations of the universe.
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Since 2015, Dr. Tayoubi and his colleagues, now consisting of three separate teams of physicists and engineers, have investigated the pyramid using a particle physics technique known as muon tomography to see through to its core.
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"I'm excited because it allows us to study the Higgs boson to factors of 20 to 50 precision," Freya Blekman, professor of particle physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and researcher at CERN, told Gizmodo.
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The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, has failed to find any of the hoped-for particles that would lead physicists beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Just as it meant something beyond the world of particle physics when America cancelled its proposed giant SSC and CERN's LHC became the biggest game in town, so it would mean something if China took CERN's crown.
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Superconductors have found an important use generating the intense magnetic fields required by MRI machines and high-energy particle physics experiments, but they must be kept at temperatures far colder than those we naturally experience on Earth.
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It's an innate number built into the fabric of the laws of particle physics; it's similar to the way that you come with intrinsic properties built into your identities, such as a name and a favorite food.
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With the assistance of Ars, CERN — which is based in Switzerland and is home to both the Large Hadron Collider and the world's largest particle physics research facility — initiated Collide, its flagship art residency program, in 2011.
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Researchers reported on Thursday that in debris flying out from the collisions of protons at the CERN particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, they had spotted a particle that has long been predicted but not detected until now.
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This is still particle physics, and there are truckloads of data waiting to be analyzed that might reveal more discrepancies, cancel other discrepancies out, and uncover plenty of other particle behaviors that could hide secrets of the universe.
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He went on:Gravity is best described by Einstein's general relativity, and the other three forces are described by the Standard Model of particle physics, based on quantum field theory, and although there are some similarities... they're very different.
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Like researchers at the LHC, Dr Geraci and his team at the University of Nevada, in Reno, hope to find things unexplained by established theories such as the Standard Model of particle physics and Newton's law of gravity.
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Everyone at the time was puzzling over the Standard Model of particle physics—the set of equations describing the known elementary particles and their interactions via the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces (all the fundamental forces except gravity).
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This resulted in a Nobel prize for the physicists behind it, and kickstarted a decades-long hunt in particle physics for miniscule differences between matter and antimatter in an effort to explain the universe's preference for the former.
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Regardless of past results, the LHCb scientists I spoke with pointed out that this new particle will allow them to better understand particle physics in general, and continue refining their theories about what quarks do when they stick together.
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The book, titled The ABCs of Particle Physics by Lauren Biron and Chris Smith, takes a child (or maybe just an interested adult) along an adorably dorky rhyme-trip through some of the most important high-energy physics concepts.
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If you adore it and treasure it, and believe that mankind can accomplish great things and great civilizations (look at space exploration or breakthroughs in particle physics as modern examples of that), then you will want to preserve it.
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Unlike the Higgs boson—the particle discovered in 213.45 that was the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics—this unforeseen boson and accompanying force would lead the way to a more complete theory of nature.
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Rather than resorting to the familiar tricks of biography-lite — dramatizing tired anecdotes, larding the narrative with undigested research about particle physics and Oppenheimer's persecution during the McCarthy era — Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work.
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"For normal black holes, you need to have at least a solar mass because it is created out of a star," said Scholtz, who is a junior research fellow at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University.
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For two years, the ScanPyramids project, a collaboration between the Heritage Innovation Preservation project in Egypt, Cairo University, and the Egyptian government, has been using advanced techniques from the world of particle physics to learn more about the pyramids.
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But an experiment called the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector at Los Alamos saw extra "electron antineutrinos" (in particle physics, every particle has an antiparticle that acts exactly the same but annihilates its partner should they ever meet) in the oscillation process.
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Fox and his collaborators analyzed the properties of the wild events and presented calculations demonstrating that the particle physics rulebook, called the Standard Model, can't explain how a particle with this much energy could have made it through the Earth.
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These include the inclusion of new puppet templates to help you get started, improved particle physics to add dynamic elements like snowfall or collapsing brick walls to your animations, and overall improvements to how the puppets behave when you animate them.
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I think this man was guarding the entrance to the experiment (Ryan F. Mandelbaum)If the experiment sounds confusing, it's fine—particle physics is basically taxonomy, but the animals are less cute and follow complex mathematical rules instead of genetics.
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The prospective builders fear an echo of a moment in the late 20th century when scientists in the United States lost ground in particle physics to European researchers, and never really recovered in producing path-making discoveries in that field.
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"Murray Gell-Mann dominated theoretical particle physics during the 214s and ′60s, a period with an abundance of new experimental discoveries," his colleague David J. Gross, another Nobel laureate in physics, said in an interview for this obituary in 2010.
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Shortly thereafter, he began teaching at the university level, quickly realizing that the collection could be quite useful in teaching courses that have, over the years, included engineering physics, quantum mechanics, particle physics, critical thinking, and the philosophy of science.
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But Lindley goes further by declaring that much fundamental research, whether in particle physics, cosmology or the quest to unify gravity with quantum mechanics, is based purely on mathematics and should not be regarded as science at all, but, rather, philosophy.
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Dr. Drell combined groundbreaking work in particle physics — he was deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, for nearly 21983 years — with a career in Washington as a technical adviser and defense intellectual.
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Particle physics enjoys a particular prestige in part because of its early (and now dissolved) association with the development of nuclear weapons, in part because of the conceptual depths it plumbs, in part because of the sheer size and expense of its tools.
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Last December, LHC physicists announced that they'd found tantalizing traces of an exotic particle not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics— perhaps a heavier cousin of the Higgs boson, or the elusive graviton, a quantum carrier of the force of gravity.
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The project is just one part of the new neutrino experiment, but together with the DUNE detectors and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facilities that will house the detectors, it will be an important American particle physics experiment to keep your eye on.
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This is what much of particle physics consists of these days—understanding all of the kinds of particles that don't exist in hopes of finding something new, like tossing out all of the Cracker Jacks in a bag hoping to find a prize inside.
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Over the past 230 years, Witten and others have learned that the string theories are also mathematically dual to quantum field theories—descriptions of particles moving through electromagnetic and other fields that serve as the language of the reigning "Standard Model" of particle physics.
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Since their development in the 213s, circular particle accelerators have grown from the size of a room to the size of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which occupies a 245km loop of tunnel beneath the Franco-Swiss border at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory.
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Speculation about this elusive fifth force has existed for years, partly driven by the inability of the standard model of particle physics to explain dark matter—a hypothetical form of matter that comprises a huge portion of the mass and energy in the observable universe.
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Slated for commissioning in 2020, NICA is designed to create quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter believed to have characterized the first milliseconds after the Big Bang, and will join CERN and Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as a major particle physics center.
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Back in the 1960s and 70s, scientists tried to fix other particle physics problems with "supersymmetry," which proposed that each existing matter particle (like quarks or electrons) had a corresponding force particle, and each existing force particle (like photons) had a corresponding matter particle.
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Moreover, the Department of Energy is the chief source of support for research in the physical sciences in the United States, providing far more money than the National Science Foundation, and supporting, among other things, fundamental inquiry in areas ranging from particle physics to cosmology.
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Now, physicists are trying to find new leads in other ways, by searching for rarer outcomes of particle collisions and deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics The HL-LHC would increase the collision rate by five to seven times, to make any abnormalities more obvious.
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Probably the most inventive couturier working today — certainly the most modern (she probably is the only designer ever to work at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland) — she also started with classic ideas of mythology and cosmology and flying through the stars and so on.
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Either way, the proceeds from some of the pieces, including Hawking's wheelchair, will go to charities including The Stephen Hawking Foundation, which helps fund research into cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, and the Motor Neurone Disease Association, which supports research but also care for those living with ALS.[AP]
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In the case of Zero, that data is comprised of possible moves in a game of Go. But because Zero was not programmed to understand Go specifically, it could be reprogrammed to discover information in other fields: drug discovery, protein folding, quantum chemistry, particle physics, and material design.
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Any proof that we're living in a simulation would also need to re-derive all of the laws of particle physics (and special and general relativity) using a different interpretation of quantum mechanics than what our current laws are based on, in a way that perfectly describes our universe.
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He and Tung-Mow Yan, a research associate at the accelerator center, formulated a key concept in particle physics when they explained what happens when a quark in one particle collides with an antiquark in a second particle, an annihilating confrontation that yields an electron and a positron.
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This means that, in a particle physics experiment, when scientists compare their control (the laws of physics without new particle) to the experiment (the laws of physics including the new particle), there's only a 0.00003% chance the laws of physics without the new particle would produce the results they see.
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It all started last December, when physicists at two LHC collaborations announced that they'd found tantalizing traces of an exotic particle not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics— perhaps a heavier cousin of the Higgs boson, or the elusive graviton, a quantum carrier of the force of gravity.
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The 26-page book—Symmetry's ABCs of Particle Physics—is available in three different formats: the animated version runs smoothly in your browser when you scroll up and down the pages, or you can view the static version or a pretty PDF edition to read the book offline or in print.
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The Santa Fe Institute press release explains: The field of particle physics in the late 1950s and early 1960s was often described as a "particle zoo," littered with more than 100 so-called elementary particles that had been either predicted by mathematical theory or observed in experiments with particle accelerators.
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Last December, two teams of physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported that they might have seen traces of what could be a new fundamental constituent of nature, an elementary particle that is not part of the Standard Model that has ruled particle physics for the last half-century.
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But a team of JILA physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder is reporting that, once again, the theory was right—specifically, the Standard Model of particle physics and its prediction of just how spherical the distribution of an electron's charge really is.
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Now, using a technique from the field of particle physics, an international team of researchers has harnessed cosmic-ray collisions to peek inside and uncover a hidden "void" within the pyramid's stones that is roughly 100 feet long, similar to the Statue of Liberty from her heel to her head.
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Experimental particle physics is a team effort, and more than 5,000 scientists from around the world were involved in observing what they believed to be the Higgs boson, the particle that explains why some other elementary particles have mass, Dr. Bradford Orr, a colleague of Dr. Neal's at Michigan, said.
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Lambert doesn't just attribute her inspiration to other artists, either: she's also affected by the writings of Carlos Castaneda, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, William Blake, and Carl Jung, finding additional inspiration in geometry, particle physics, mythology, and holonomic brain theory, a scientific idea that the brain is a kind of repository for holograms.
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The Higgs boson became an important lynchpin to the Standard Model of particle physics, which is our best attempt to explain how the forces of the universe work (minus gravity.) Proving that the particle did exist would validate the Standard Model, and demonstrating that it could not exist would mean rethinking our most basic assumptions.
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In some distant, far-future scenario, if you did see the dark-matter annihilation signal, then searching for this little forest of spectral lines from the bound-state transitions could potentially give you a lot of information on the particle physics of the dark matter—even if, for example, it was too heavy to ever make in the LHC.
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Haritha Siddabathuni Som, team lead at the Argonne National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility, lists off the supercomputer's impressive stats — it's the facility's most powerful supercomputer yet, occupying 24 server racks, and when it's not mapping mouse brains, it's working on other huge data sets, including some from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, peering into the mysteries of particle physics.
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"This simulation, one of the most sophisticated ever run, suggests that the black holes at the centre of every galaxy are helping to send matter into the loneliest places in the universe," noted study lead author Markus Haider from the the Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in a statement.
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My grandmother who died, and who was the reason I started writing the book, the weekend before her stroke I was spending the weekend with her and we'd had a conversation about particle physics and quantum leaps... [so] I thought I'd make my main character a fan of physics and interested in those things as a shorthand.
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It crops up in the headers on presentation slides: And in student reports: The typographical nugget of joy found its way into a charming bulletin about CERN's role in the local community: And it even made an appearance in the reference section of a peer reviewed paper: Turns out, the joy of juvenile typos isn't limited to particle physics, either.
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But Mr. Newman then turned with total ease to the highly persuasive Russian accent he is still deploying in the Hampstead Theater's terrific revival of Tom Stoppard's difficult play "Hapgood," the Scotsman landing long discourses on particle physics and the like — this is Mr. Stoppard, after all — with the feeling and passion that we have come to associate with this playwright at his most ostensibly opaque.
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Mr. Vakarchuk founded his band, called Ocean of Elza, in 1994 as an undergraduate at Lviv University, where he went on to earn a Ph.D. in a field of particle physics known as supersymmetry, or SUSY — the theory that shortcomings in what is known as the standard model of energy and matter in the universe will ultimately be explained by particles that have not yet been detected.
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Think of what STEM might reasonably be expected to cover: fluid mechanics, C++, the periodic table, PEMDAS, Python, botany, the Krebs cycle, Instagram curation, polymer chemistry, robotics, making an investor deck, formal logic, electrodynamics, the quadratic formula, GIFs, quantum mechanics, JavaScript, civil engineering, machine learning, virology, drones, particle physics, acoustics, the supply chain, astronomy, YouTube memes, natural selection, anatomy, multiplication tables, remote surgery using 5G, and … Everything else.
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