Articles tagged "higgs"

Mars touchdown, Bjork, gauge symmetry, Occupy reborn. 2012 really happened.

Physics with a side of brains.

Smashing two things together in order to uncover their hidden properties is something hardly limited to the pleasure-inducing, dirty acts you’re now thinking about. Particle physicists all over the world have been constantly working on and improving…

Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson sear…

Yesterday's "announcement":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?_r=1&hpw of a "Higgslike" particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the most expensive science experiment ever, is less…

Physicist Rob Roser is head of the Scientific Computing Division and formerly a spokesman for the CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator, in Batavia, Illinois, an hour outside of Chicago. The Tevatron was switched off last September, leavi…

It's not easy to visualize the maybe-discovered Higgs boson, especially since we can't see it. Instead we detect its presence by looking at the wreckage of collisions of protons, and finding the two other particles into which the Higgs is "thought to…

Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or

Don't pop your champagne "just yet":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/2/for-the-love-of-god-particle-the-god-particle-has-not-yet-been-discovered, but the Swiss lab is maybe about to be hosting the biggest "coming out party":http://www.guardian.co.u…

In December, scientists at CERN moved "closer":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374 to nabbing the Higgs, the particle that is thought to explain what gives everything mass. Or to not finding it at all. In his latest video update, F…

Just in case you don't understand what exactly they're looking for "over at CERN":http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/05/11/motherboard.hadron.collider/, watch this interview with Peter Higgs talking about his life's work, the Higgs mechanism…