LHC
What the Mood Is Like at CERN Right Now
Don't pop your champagne "just yet":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/2/for-the-love-of-god-particle-the-god-particle-has-not-yet-been-discovered, but the Swiss lab is maybe about to be hosting the biggest "coming out party":http://www.guardian.co.uk...
CERN Spikes the Football: Higgs Boson Discovery Coming on Fourth of July
CERN is set to announce the discovery of proof that the Higgs boson “almost certainly” exists, according to the AP. That’s a big freaking deal; it’s been more than 50 years since the God particle was first theorized, and it’s the last piece of the...
A Very Simple Explanation of How to Catch a Higgs Boson, If It Actually Exists (Video)
In December, scientists at CERN moved "closer":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374 to nabbing the Higgs, the particle that is thought to explain what gives everything mass. Or to not finding it at all. In his latest video update...
An Interview with a Guy at CERN about Seriously, What's the Deal with the Higgs Boson
CERN in Geneva published the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research results the other day regarding the elusive Higgs boson, a tiny building block particle that’s never been witnessed but its existence is crucial to quantum theory. It’s so crucial...
Do I Detect a Hint of Higgs Boson in This Universe?
CERN researchers announced this morning the barest of hints of the Higgs boson at the Large Collider. It's not a discovery, and anyone that pays any sort of attention to this stuff knew just as well there wasn't going to be a "discovery" announced...
The Large Hadron Collider Backlash Is Going To Be Disgusting
Last month, CERN reported its latest results at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India, and "they weren't all that promising":http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7544323-atom-smashing-hype-faces-reality. Instead of confirming a...
CERN Wants Little Ol' You To Find the God Particle
The Large Hadron Collider team is harnessing spare computing power from civilian laptops and computers to bolster the search for new physics and fundamental particles. "LHC@home 2.0":http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/LHCathome/, a revamp of the "LHC@home...
A Warning About the "Dark Side" of the Web from the Birthplace of the Web
h5. CERN's computer storage facility On August 8, 1989, someone published a web page at "http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html":http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It was...
We Captured Antimatter for 16 Minutes: What That Actually Means
One of my favorite things about the universe is that it shouldn't exist. Not in like an existential _why are we even here?_ way, but in a real-deal "god who?" science-says-so way. It should have blown itself up just as quickly as it Big Banged its way...
Peter Higgs Is Going to Explain His God Particle To You Now
Just in case you don't understand what exactly they're looking for "over at CERN":http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/05/11/motherboard.hadron.collider/, watch this interview with Peter Higgs talking about his life's work, the Higgs mechanism...
Big Bangs and Black Holes
Buried beneath the Swiss countryside and stretching across the border to France, the Large Hadron Collider isn’t just any science experiment.
Fermilab Closes In On the Higgs Boson
Researchers at Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider are "talking big":http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/03/14/tevatron-experiments-report-new-higgs-search-results/ this week as they prepare to present new measurements narrowing down even...