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Does this mean that regular physics in today's textbooks is complete? And that the Standard Model of Physics, the framers of which say they know it's somehow contradictory, ie wrong way down deep and in need of new physics, is now fully buttoned up, waxed and polished for its gold watch ceremony and see ya later we...
The last week or so brought a rising tempo of stories about the coming Higgs Hunting Season. Hopes are rising for finding it soon with the help of the ever-more brawny Large Hadron Collider. Much of it is because of a physics conference in the Italian Alps and news from the recently deceased Tevatron machine. Your...
Yes yes we all know (don't we, wink wink) that making...
Yes yes we all know (don't we, wink wink) that making the Higgs particle will be a big trophy for the Large Hadron Collider still in ramp-up mode in its big tunnel on the French Swiss border. It would open the door to new physics that some say is inevitable, and may give science a chance to see the hallowed Standard Model of Physics display its contradictions right out in the open in real data. Or something like that. But at Science News reporter Ron Cowen has a story he's sure should be making big headlines along those same lines, and it's not about the Higgs. Looks like a...
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