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8 basic unanswered questions about the known particles
It’s 2024, and we still only know of the…
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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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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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May 14
New particle at last! Physicists detect the first “glueball”
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed…
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Aug 25, 2023
Ask Ethan: How many constants define our Universe?
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with…
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Oct 4, 2022
The fundamental problem with gravity and quantum physics
We have two descriptions of the Universe that…
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Jul 15, 2022
Ask Ethan: How can physicists make neutrino beams?
The neutrino is the most ghostly…
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Ethan Siegel
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Jun 14, 2022
Why are there exactly 3 generations of particles?
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three…
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Apr 14, 2022
Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model?
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Sep 15, 2021
Could This 40 Year Old Formula Be The Key To Going Beyond The Standard Model?
Why are the rest masses…
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