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At Fermilab, Imagining Neutrinos As Light-Speed Carrier Pigeons
It's safe to say that a whole lot more of the world knows what a neutrino is -- or at least that it exists -- than just a year ago.
High Energy Physics Party Aftermath: The God Particle Must Be Around Here Somewhere
The world’s top physicists spent the past week in Grenoble getting theoretically and experimentally drunk on all things sub-atomic at the 2011 "Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics":http://www.eps.org/conferences/europhysics_conferences/hep...
Ones and Zeros: God Particles, GDP and Penile Length
_It looks like particle colliders are finding more and creating apocalyptic black holes less_ h3. One: "God Particle, Dark Matter, Secrets Of the Universe: CERN To Hold Major Press Conference Monday":http://www.newsbad.com/story/god-particle-dark...
Ones and Zeros: Fermilab FTW, Mind Control WTF
_It's good to see that Fermilab is still getting some_ h3. ONE: FCC's report on how to improve local journalism in the age of the Webs ("FCC":http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities) h3. Zero: A cheating computer ("Extreme Tech":http://www...
Megascience Blues: What the Death of America’s Biggest Particle Accelerator Means
The story of Fermilab is a story about keeping calm and collected on the vanguard of knowledge. Yeah, Robert Wilson, the lab’s founding director, was an impassioned, divisive figure, wrangling with the public over where to build the National...
The Biggest Physics Discovery In 50 Years?
It's a bump, a weird bump in collision data at Fermilab's "soon-to-be shuttered":http://motherboard.tv/2011/1/11/goodbye-tevatron-the-u-s-s-largest-particle-accelerator Tevatron collider. Weird bumps happen; it might not mean anything. But, as it...
Fermilab's Ghost in the Machine
Fermilab's Tevatron collider is picking up something unexplainable. Particles aren't behaving like they should. It has to do with the top quark, one of the fundamental particles. It sounds simplistic in a way, but when particles collide and shoot...