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Particle physics - it matters

Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Particle physics saves lives, connects continents through new channels of communication, helps us understand the world around us and inspires tomorrow's leaders.


Before God particle, scientists must learn soul of new machine

Before God particle, scientists must learn soul of new machine

Physics / General Physics

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 32

After a huge success in first testing, followed by a very public meltdown last September, the Large Hadron Collider may be ready for action again as early as June.





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Growth in secular attitudes leaves Americans room for belief in God

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 139

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nature of the American religious experience is changing as a rising number of people report having no formal religious affiliation, even though the number of Americans who say they pray is increasing, ...


Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider swallow the Earth?

Probing Question: Could the Large Hadron Collider swallow the Earth?

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (16) | comments 71

Nestled 570 feet beneath the Alps on the Swiss-French border is the world’s largest physics experiment — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Constructed for $8.8 billion by the European Organization for Nuclear ...


Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control

Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions.


Large Hadron Collider could test hyperdrive propulsion

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 5 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft ...


Janus particles: particles with two faces

Janus particles: particles with two faces

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have devised a method for fabricating Janus particles, so called because, like the Roman ...


Atlas Particle Detector

UW scientists join hunt for 'God' particle to complete 'theory of everything'

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 5

When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University of Washington scientists.


Physicists: After 30 years of study, rare particle confirms prediction

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (57) | comments 7

High-energy physicists devoted to recreating the conditions at the beginning of the universe have for the first time observed a new way to produce those basic particles of atoms, protons and neutrons.


Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (26) | comments 9

Superstring theory aims to explain the laws of physics from extremely small strings in various states. Theoretical superstring theory is therefore normally not considered to be particularly relevant for practical ...


A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0

The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.


Tracing ultra-fine dust

Tracing ultra-fine dust

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Limit values for fine dust emissions are based on total particle weight. It is the ultra-fine particles, however, that are particularly harmful to health. A new technique separates them by size and identifies ...



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