Category: standard model of physics
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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...
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In April a team at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, scheduled for shut down later this year after a glorious career, reported it had seen a new particle shooting jets of stuff and sitting on the mass and energy spectrum where standard theory says there should be nothing of the sort. (News coverage was immense. See...
Maybe new kinds of physics...
Maybe new kinds of physics - you know, particles and fields whose imprints in the detectors of big colliders make new rules or break old ones - are finally arising from the noise. They make the science more exciting then just waiting for Mr. Higgs's particle to show up and explain mass. The Higgs is on the agenda. Maybe it's finally rapping on the window at Chicago's Tevatron, in an unexpected incarnation. Some of the new things rising toward statistical significance, one gathers, are surprises. This is a good omen for excitement when the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Europe stretches its legs in earnest in coming months and years. The Tevatron for its part may finish its glorious run by giving...
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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