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These Are The Machines Solving The Biggest Mysteries In Physics
Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest discoveries in physics come from huge collaborations of scientists working on enormous apparatuses that can cost billions of dollars, often located in the most extreme places on Earth. After all, it’s just the fabric universe they’re trying to understand.
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How The 2010s Changed Physics Forever
This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics.
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Large Hadron Collider Experiment Reveals Alien Structure Of A ‘Pentaquark’
New results from the world’s largest particle accelerator illuminate the structure of the pentaquark, an exotic particle consisting of five quarks bound together.
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Physicists Create Incredible ‘Quark Soup’ Droplets That Expand Like Little Big Bangs
The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.