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Starts With A Bang!
Jun 25
The one reason that physicists won’t give up on supersymmetry
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric…
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Ask Ethan: Why do matter and antimatter annihilate?
From forming bound states to normal scattering…
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Jun 5
8 basic unanswered questions about the known particles
It’s 2024, and we still only know of the…
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The Higgs boson’s most captivating puzzle still remains
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery…
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Why reimagining the particle accelerator is so challenging
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most…
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May 22
New LHC results refute Fermilab’s “hole” in the Standard Model
With new W-boson, top quark, and Higgs…
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May 14
New particle at last! Physicists detect the first “glueball”
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed…
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Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
At a fundamental level, only a few…
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Apr 25
The big idea of Grand Unified Theories of physics
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make…
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Ethan Siegel
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Apr 18
The physical reason behind quantum uncertainty
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain…
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