Tag Archives: particle physics

Have some neutrinos broken the law?

Impact: Nuclear Physics    September 27, 2011
You know the old joke, “The speed of light: it’s not only the limit, it’s the law.” I used to think the joke was really lame, because if the speed of light were like a human law, then it could be changed. But the speed of light is a universal constant, invariant, and one of [...]
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Supersymmetry: SUSY still has no data

Impact: Nuclear Physics    August 29, 2011
Even physicists get that sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach that something you’ve relied on for most of your life may be wrong, or at least not as right as you thought. If you’re a good scientist, you question and examine – your own thinking and whatever it is that has shaken you [...]
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Dark matter: probably detected, (more) verification needed

Impact: Dark Matters    December 27, 2009
If you know about dark matter, you may well ask, “How can something that makes up 3/4 of the universe not only be invisible but essentially unknown?” Even cosmologists and physicists sometimes wonder how decades of theorizing, searching, and experimenting can’t provide a verifiable answer. Well, perhaps now there is evidence of dark matter. It [...]
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Powerful X-Ray laser – powerful science

News: Scientific Instruments    November 4, 2009
Although sometimes lost in the background, many of the important breakthroughs in science are made possible by advances in scientific instrumentation. This is particularly and most obviously true for particle physics. For a while now, the big news in this area has been about the trials and tribulations of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in [...]
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