HIGGS BOSON

NEW YORK - MAY 29: Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Lederman speaks at the panel discussion 'Pioneers in Science' at the World Science Festival held at The Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY on May 29, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for World Science Festival)
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U.S. NEWS
Physicist Dead At 96 After Selling Nobel Prize To Cover Medical Costs
By Keith Ridler, The Associated Press
Leon Lederman coined the phrase "God particle."
SCIENCE
The Higgs Boson Explained in Layman's Terms
By Quora, Contributor
The best answer to any question
They knew that the apparent mass of the electron changes when it moves through a crystal, like silicon or quartz. So maybe
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN's new director-general
Christian Beutler
SCIENCE
Meet The Most Powerful Woman In Particle Physics
By David Freeman
Fabiola Gianotti has some very big goals.
SCIENCE
Hacking Quantum Theory
By Benjamin T. Solomon, Contributor
Member, Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committ...
Is there proof in Nature that electric field lines are not repulsive? Yes. In the transverse electromagnetic wave, both the electric and magnetic field lines are well behaved, non-repulsive, parallel (not warped) field lines that are orthogonal to the direction of propagation. Hiding in plain sight!
SCIENCE
An Exploration of Physics Logic
By Benjamin T. Solomon, Contributor
Member, Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committ...
Physics is by consensus! In gravitational theories we have three accords, Relativity, Strings & Quantum (RSQ) theories. Like a board of directors, the physics community, based on empirical evidence, agree to disagree on how Nature works. Nature, herself, has only one vote, and it is a veto.
EDUCATION
Do We Really Know What's Real? The Most Optimistic Answer Is Maybe
By Deepak Chopra, Contributor
CoAuthor, 'Super Genes​'; Founder, The Chopra Foundation
Three great unsolved mysteries remain, and they are the same riddles asked by ancient Greek philosophers: What is the universe made of? Where did the universe come from? How do we know what's real?
EDUCATION
Physics' Split Personality: Is the Dark Side Winning?
By Deepak Chopra, Contributor
CoAuthor, 'Super Genes​'; Founder, The Chopra Foundation
But in the last half century or so, a great many theories either cannot be proven through gathering evidence or barely can be.
SCIENCE
One Tiny Particle Inspires Scientific Paper With More Than 5,000 Authors
By Macrina Cooper-White
But other experts argue it may be time to rethink how scientists get credited for their work -- and even how new research
SCIENCE
International Science With the U.S. and CERN
By Alice Bean, Contributor
Experimental particle physicist professor from Univ. of Kansas
I was happy to attend the White House ceremony on May 7 to sign the agreement between the U.S. and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to renew the collaboration in particle physics and advanced computing.
SCIENCE
D'Oh! Homer Simpson Figured Out The Higgs Boson Years Before Physicists Found It
By David Freeman
Maybe Homer Simpson only acts dumb. His doctoral thesis is entitled "Heavy flavour physics at the CERN PP̄ collider"--CERN
SCIENCE
The Future of Physics
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, Contributor
Astronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium
In another few months the Large Hadron Collider will be powered up to explore its maximum energy range. Many physicists fervently hope we will see definite signs of "new physics," especially a phenomenon called "supersymmetry."
SCIENCE
Hard Work in 2014 for LHC to Be Ready in 2015
By Alice Bean, Contributor
Experimental particle physicist professor from Univ. of Kansas
For our research at the Large Hadron Collider with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, 2014 was a year of hard work. The LHC has been in a planned shutdown since 2013 and the plan is to start giving proton-proton collisions again in mid-2015.
CULTURE & ARTS
Xavier Cortada's Art: Inspired by Science, and Uniquely Miami
By Erin N. Marcus, Contributor
Academic General Internist, Writer
It had all the trappings of a typical Miami funeral. The eulogists, stifling their tears. The aria, Handel's mournful Piangero la Sorte Mia. The loud lamentations of the black laced lloradera.
SCIENCE
Maybe It Wasn't The Higgs Boson After All
By David Freeman
SCIENCE
Is Our Universe Really 'Slip Slidin Away'?
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, Contributor
Astronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium
Space is not empty but is permeated everywhere by the Higgs field: from the privacy of your bathroom to the most distant reaches of our universe. But because it is a field in Nature, it allows 'empty space' to have its own energy as this field interacts with itself.
SCIENCE
Hawking Says Higgs Boson Could Destroy The Universe, But Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry
By Jacqueline Howard
Did you catch that? Hawking warns that if scientists accelerate the Higgs to incredibly high energy levels, the particle
SCIENCE
Myths of Physics: 2. Gravity Is Much Weaker Than Electromagnetism
By Victor Stenger, Contributor
Physicist, PhD, bestselling author
Gravity is so weak at the atomic and subatomic level because the masses of atoms and subatomic particles are so small. It is strong on the planetary scale because the masses of planets are so large.
SCIENCE
The End of Accelerator Physics?
By Victor Stenger, Contributor
Physicist, PhD, bestselling author
So far, the LHC as well as searches elsewhere for neutralinos have come up empty. While many technical and popular articles have declared, "supersymmetry is dead," this is not yet quite the case. SUSY is still alive, but on life support.
SCIENCE
Proton Spin Mystery Gains New Clue
By Macrina Cooper-White
ENTERTAINMENT
Particle Fever Hits VOD: How Indie Cinema Happens
By Jesse Damiani, Contributor
CEO of Galatea, Series Editor of Best American Experimental Wr...
This summer may pack plenty of silver-screen explosions, but how many of them tell you what you're made of?
SCIENCE
Higgs Boson Looks Even Higgs-ier
By Macrina Cooper-White
SCIENCE
Freaky Higgs Physics Suggests The Universe Shouldn't Exist
By LiveScience, LiveScience
Follow Tia Ghose on Twitter and Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science
SCIENCE
Particle Physics for the Future in the U.S.
By Alice Bean, Contributor
Experimental particle physicist professor from Univ. of Kansas
The Division of Particles and Fields in the American Physical Society started a community planning exercise in 2013 to help plan the next 10 years of particle physics investments in light of the Higgs discovery, new information about neutrinos, and new information about dark energy and the accelerating universe.
QUEER VOICES
Passover, Idle Gossip and Competitive Altruism
By Dana Beyer, Contributor
Executive Director, Gender Rights Maryland
The reality is that human beings are selfish as well as altruistic, and we live not only with saints but with sociopaths. Nowhere is this more evident than in politics.
SCIENCE
Introducing the Higgs Boson and Its Siblings!
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, Contributor
Astronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium
What does your weight on a bathroom scale, the expansion of our universe today, and the Big Bang have in common? If modern ideas in physics are correct, they are all caused by a new family of particles called "spin-zero bosons." Let's have a look!
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