Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force
Posted by admin in Science on 07. Apr, 2011 | 0 Comments
May be "the most significant discovery in physics in half a century" Physicists at Fermilab might have found evidence of a new elementary particle or an entirely new force of nature, suggesting the nation’s biggest science experiment is about to go out with a bang. A new analysis of 10,000 proton-antiproton collisions at the [...]
Rumor Mill: Has Tevatron Found the Higgs Boson?
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Science on 13. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Tevatron Accelerator An interesting blog post from University of Padua physicist Tommaso Dorigo is churning up the rumor mill this morning, and it’s so tantalizing we can’t help but engage in a little rumormongering ourselves. So without any evidence or proof, we’re just going to dive right into the meat of the matter: there’s [...]
Time to Cross the Beams! LHC to Commence First Proton Smashing Tomorrow
Posted by admin in Science on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Although some of us feel like we’ve heard this story before The Large Hadron Collider’s Compact Muon Solenoid courtesy CERN The Large Hadron Collider has been coming along in fits and starts, but the European Organization for Nuclear Research plans to begin colliding the highest energy proton beams ever conjured tomorrow, heralding a new era [...]
Big Bang Conditions Created in Lab
Posted by admin in Science, Space on 15. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Computer simulations of the lab work, clockwise from top left: Gluons and quarks; gold ions about to collide; just after the collision; the resulting perfect liquid. Credit: RHIC WASHINGTON – By smashing gold particles together at super-fast speeds, physicists have basically melted protons, creating a kind of “quark soup” of matter that is about 250,000 [...]
