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Particle Accelerators 101: If Only Every University Course Was Animated
Are you still scratching your head over what a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider actually does? Don’t feel bad, the LHC is the most complicated piece of scientific equipment mankind has ever built. And unless you’re a physicist, you’ll probably never understand its intricacies.
Reconcile Your LHC Shutdown Sadness With A Higgs Boson Watch
Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider’s two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson watch to your wrist as a reminder that in no time the LHC will be back in business.
New Particle ‘Looking More And More Like A Higgs Boson’
Last July, scientists announced that had discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs Boson — but quirks in the data suggested that might not be the case. Now, however, CERN has announced that the observed particle is “looking more and more like a Higgs boson”.
The Large Hadron Collider Just Started On A Two-Year Vacation
The Large Hadron Collider has been pretty busy lately, probably discovering the Higgs Boson, and definitely not destroying the world and whatnot. It’s probably earned a little time off, right? You bet it has, which is why it’s going down for a two-year nap.
LHC Experiments Suggest A Second Higgs Boson. That, Or Someone Forgot To Clean The Accelerator
The Higgs Boson is easily one of the most exciting discoveries made by science in recent times. Hopefully you saved some of that excitement for the second Higgs-like particle, which CERN may or may not have discovered. It really depends on how much they’ve had to drink, apparently.
‘The World Wide Web Is A Child Of The Hunt For The Higgs Boson’
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced earlier this year, there’s no denying it was exciting news. Well, more so for scientists with the ability to put the find into context. For the average person? It’s a bit harder to understand. The find won’t be changing our daily lives any time soon… or indeed ever. But the journey to discovering the Higgs Boson? That’s reaped a few rewards, as CERN’s Troels Petersen explains in this TEDxCopenhagen talk.
The Higgs Boson Discovery Is Now Real Science
In July, scientists announced that they had discovered what they strongly suspected to be the Higgs Boson, a particle that is believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. Further experiments in August made the finding more certain, and now the results have been peer-reviewed and published.
The Higgs Boson Discovery Gets More Certain
In July, scientists announced that they’d discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs boson, a particle that’s believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. Now, after more experiments, they’re even more certain that they’ve finally got it.
