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Category Archives: Physics
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Subatomic Particle Flowchart…Which Particle Are YOU?
Sean Carroll, who writes the Cosmic Variance blog at Discover, created this extremely awesome flowchart of subatomic particles. With such a large number of particles out there, this [..]
Great Explanation of Higgs Boson from PhD Comics
Jorge Cham of PhD Comics recently visited the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He subsequently made one of the best videos explaining the search for the Higgs boson [..]
The Best Day of the Year!
This is a repost from last year, but I quite liked it. Enjoy! Yes March 14 (3/14) is indeed pi day; a day to celebrate everyone’s favourite irrational number. As [..]
Tevatron Data Supports LHC in Search For Higgs
Although now defunct, data from the US based Tevatron particle collider seems to support the data from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland in the search for the [..]
Possible Evidence of Majorana Fermions
Everyone knows about anti-matter, right? Ok, not everyone, but if you are reading this blog than you have probably heard the term at least. Most of the mass [..]
Say It Ain’t So, Neutrinos!
Well the news broke not too long ago. It may soon turn out that the super-luminal neutrions detected by the OPERA experiment back in September 2011 were actually quite [..]
Higgs Boson (or background fluctuation) Glimpsed
In a press conference given today, scientists at CERN gave an update on the hunt for the Higgs boson. Now let me be very clear. They did not [..]
Radiation Found in Baby Formula: Poison, or Overreaction?
Traces of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 have been found in a Japanese company’s baby formula. The story was reported in The Associated Press, and the machine of churnalism has [..]






