Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Whispers abound about the discovery of something new and quite unexpected at the Large Hadron Collider. The previous confirmation of the Higgs boson was truly amazing but they were looking for that and expected to find and confirm it. The recent discovery (not by the LHC) of gravitational waves was also a huge scientific landmark, but … Read more
Well come on, its “The” news today, so what else should I be blogging about, but then what can I actually add? Not much, except perhaos to point you at a few good links. First we have Jon Butterworth in The Guardian. He is a physics professor at University College London and is a member … Read more
Has a Higgs boson been found, in fact will it ever be found? … No, we don’t know yet, but we soon might. Ian Sample writes in today’s UK Guardian that staff at the LHC have arranged a special seminar on Tuesday 13 December at which the latest results in the search for the Higgs … Read more
There is a story on the BBC today that pushed my, “Oh thats cool” button. Jason Palmer, the BBC Science reporter, writes … Large Hadron Collider researchers have shown off what may be the facility’s first “new physics” outside our current understanding of the Universe. Particles called D-mesons seem to decay slightly differently from their … Read more
So how are the folks over at the LHC getting on? Quite well apparently … Since December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing particles together at record-setting energy levels. Physicists hope that those high-energy collisions could replicate the conditions seen immediately after the Big Bang, shedding light on how our universe came to … Read more