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Starts With A Bang!
Jun 14
Ask Ethan: Why do matter and antimatter annihilate?
From forming bound states to normal scattering…
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Ethan Siegel
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Jun 4
The Higgs boson’s most captivating puzzle still remains
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
May 30
Is fundamental science a victim of its own success?
Some think the reason fundamental scientific…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
May 28
Why reimagining the particle accelerator is so challenging
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
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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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
May 14
New particle at last! Physicists detect the first “glueball”
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
May 10
The big idea that our Universe is a hologram
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but…
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Starts With A Bang!
May 1
The Universe might never run out of hydrogen
The most common element in the Universe, vital for…
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Apr 26
The idea that matter is mostly empty space is mostly wrong
Practically all of the matter we see and…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Apr 25
The big idea of Grand Unified Theories of physics
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make…
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