Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of neutrino …
WEBThe 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this morning to two physicists whose teams discovered a fundamental property of neutrinos. The work of Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald showed that the tiny …
Scientist detects danger with physics | symmetry …
WEBInspired by physics in high school, Munir Muniruzzaman never dreamed he would one day use it in a wide variety of ways, including detecting bombs and mending people with cancer.
The legacy of César Lattes - symmetry magazine
WEBWhen César Lattes graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1943, he was still a teenager and the only physics major in his class. Little did he know that just a few years later his research would be connected to two …
Antimatter from bananas - symmetry magazine
WEBJul 23, 2009 · US-based scientists and students working on research and experiments with the Large Hadron Collider contribute to a blog that offered articles about particle physics and insight into the life as a physicist.This week, Flip Tanedo, a graduate student at Cornell University, posted an interesting entry on bananas and antimatter:. I was recently …
Of symmetries, the strong force and Helen Quinn
WEBModern theoretical physicists spend much of their time examining the symmetries governing particles and their interactions. Researchers describe these principles mathematically and test them with sophisticated experiments, leading to profound insights about how the universe works.
The status of supersymmetry - symmetry magazine
WEBJan 12, 2021 · The Standard Model of particle physics is both fantastically successful and glaringly incomplete. Its predictions have pieced together many of the known features of the universe and guided physicists to new discoveries, such as the Higgs boson.
Physics books of 2020 - symmetry magazine
WEBUntil the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, by Brian Greene. In this book, Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe; The Fabric of the Cosmos; The Hidden Reality) embarks on an ambitious quest seeking humanity’s place in the vast expanse of time and space.As he writes, “[w]e emerge from laws that, as far as …
Four things you might not know about dark matter
WEBAt this moment, several experiments are on the hunt for dark matter. But scientists actually discovered its existence decades ago. In the 1930s, astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky was observing the rotations of the galaxies that form the Coma cluster, a group of more than 1000 galaxies located more than 300 million light years from Earth.
Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays | symmetry magazine
WEBGamma rays are the most energetic type of light, packing a punch strong enough to pierce through metal or concrete barriers. More energetic than X-rays, they are born in the chaos of exploding stars, the annihilation of electrons and the decay of radioactive atoms.
Physics books of 2021 - symmetry magazine
WEBNov 30, 2021 · The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything, by Michio Kaku. Theorist Michio Kaku (author of Beyond Einstein; Physics of the Future and others) echoes the name of physicist Leon Lederman’s popular science book The God Particle in the title to his new book, which surveys the search for a “theory of everything.” His exploration …
A common language - symmetry magazine
WEBApr 30, 2019 · Understanding the barriers. Asher Kirschbaum, who attended the Maryland School for the Deaf from 1997 to 2012, got into physics the way many kids do—by reading books about space and science and becoming fascinated with …
Meet the kaon - symmetry magazine
WEBNov 10, 2020 · All Clifford Charles Butler and George Rochester knew for sure was that they’d discovered something new. Photographs from their cloud-chamber experiments at the University of Manchester revealed the tracks of two particles that behaved unlike anything they’d seen before.
Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain
WEBOct 18, 2018 · 3. Why is there so much matter in the universe? Whenever a particle of matter comes into being—for example, in a particle collision in the Large Hadron Collider or in the decay of another particle—normally its antimatter counterpart comes along for …
Ten things you might not know about particle accelerators
WEBApr 15, 2014 · Particle accelerators are the closest things we have to time machines, according to Stephen Hawking. In 2010, physicist Stephen Hawking wrote an article for the UK paper the Daily Mail explaining how it might be possible to travel through time. We would just need a particle accelerator large enough to accelerate humans the way we …