Sunday 14 April 2013

Potential dark matter discovery a win for space station science






Today (April 3), researchers announced the first science results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a $2 billion cosmic-ray particle detector mounted on the exterior of the football-field-size International Space Station. The instrument has ...

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(Don't) Respect my Authority






Anyway, back to TEDxCERN: I recommend this TED Ed lesson on cosmology and particle physics from Tom Whyntie, as a good taster for the May event. He has a PhD in particle physics, dammit. But also the animation reminds me a bit of the small guy in the ...

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First clues in search for universe's dark matter

Of the 25 billion cosmic ray events the AMS has studied so far, "an unprecedented number, 6.8 million, were unambiguously identified as electrons and their antimatter counterpart, positrons," said CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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5 elusive particles beyond Higgs






The silicon strip tracker of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) nears completion at CERN in 2006. Particle will bounce off the bronze-colored plates. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). With the recent confirmation of a Higgs Boson discovery, many physicists were ...

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Which was the bigger breakthrough: Quantum Mechanics or Relativity ...

Relativity is the "simpler" of the two, and can be directly linked to classical mechanics, with little difficulty (except the maths - new operators and a lot of the " old" math ...

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