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The Force of Nothing: Attraction, Repulsion, and Motion in the Quantum Void
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (285+ words) edhat The Force of Nothing: Attraction, Repulsion, and Motion in the Quantum Void Join the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics for the next exciting installment in the KITP Public Lecture series, "The Force of Nothing: Attraction, Repulsion, and Motion in…...
String theory suddenly emerged from simple physics rules
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (906+ words) String theory offers a potential way around that problem. In the theory, every particle, including the hypothetical graviton that would carry the force of gravity, comes from different vibrations of tiny strings. The mathematics also requires the strings to exist…...
Asif and Lance [IMAGE] | Eurek Alert! Science News Releases
10+ hour, 7+ min ago (66+ words) Asif and Lance (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Asif Khan and Lance Fernandes built the ferroelectric NAND memory chips in Georgia Tech's cleanroom, then sent the chips for radiation testing to collaborators at Pennsylvania State University. Those tests revealed just how extreme…...
Vrije Universiteit Brussel professor Steven Lowette appointed to top position within world-famous CMS experiment at CERN
22+ hour, 49+ min ago (160+ words) "I will begin my mandate with an enormous dataset that remains largely unexplored" The challenge is immense. CMS functions as a kind of digital camera the size of a cathedral, capturing 40 million images per second of the collisions taking place…...
What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 3: A Universe From Nothing
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (79+ words) Run Hawking's machinery and out pops something startling: the most likely universe looks an awful lot like ours, complete with inflation, a low-entropy beginning, and an arrow of time. All of cosmology, falling out for free. Almost....
Cern seeks public's views on potential next mega facility
20+ hour, 16+ min ago (115+ words) Research Professional News France and Switzerland to be consulted on potential "16 billion Future Circular Collider Europe's organisation for nuclear physics research, Cern, has launched public consultations on whether it should go ahead with its proposed next massive-scale facility, the Future…...
Inside CERN's particle physics breakthrough: measuring the invisible "ghost" in the machine - Futura-Sciences
17+ hour, 42+ min ago (447+ words) Hannes Bartosik and Frank Schmidt from CERN, alongside Giulio Franchetti from GSI Darmstadt, confirmed this experimental existence. They published their definitive findings in the journal Nature Physics. The structure affects particles in four dimensional phase space, making it exceptionally difficult…...
Scientists Created a Subatomic Particle That Defies Our Understanding of Physics
13+ hour, 52+ min ago (224+ words) The eta prime meson held together without one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Despite those odds, the team found peak structures in their data that match theoretical predictions for eta prime'mesic nuclei. Their results, published in Physical Review…...
Physicists Spent Years Hunting the "Ghost" Haunting the World's Most Famous Particle Accelerator, and They Finally Found It
18+ hour, 42+ min ago (274+ words) For decades, something invisible has been quietly undermining experiments inside one of the world's most important particle accelerators at CERN. The ghost is not a simple distortion. It is a three-dimensional shape that shifts over time, which means accurately capturing…...
Can CERN's $19bn effort to rewrite physics survive a fracturing world?
19+ hour, 37+ min ago (590+ words) The science behind CERN's proposed Future Circular Collider is settled, but the funding is not....