Tag Archives: Large Hadron Collider

Have we found the Higgs, yet?

The Large Hadron Collider is working better than expected. And it has collected oodles of data. But have they found the Higgs, yet? We asked Scientific American’s Davide Castelvecchi, who flew to Geneva to find out.

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Higgs update

Particle Physics, or more accurately High Energy Particle Physics, is arguably the most elegant, the most poetic, the most beautiful branches of the physical sciences. In 1969, Robert Wilson – the man responsible for the construction of Fermilab, the National Accelerator Facility in Illinois, was called to justify the multimillion-dollar machine to the Congressional Joint […]

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What IS a Higgs boson, anyway?

So what the hell is a hadron, and why are they colliding large ones to find a Higgs botswain?

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Everything is bits

To a casual observer, the Universe looks likes *really* complex. It isn’t. In this show we’ll discuss how just a handful of building blocks and the idea of beauty (or, rather, symmetry) produces diversity and complexity in the world around us. From atoms and molecules to the opus of science, the Standard Model of Particle […]

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