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Nobel-Winning Physicist Worried About 100 Chocolate Coin Wager Over New Particles
Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek was optimistic back in 2012. After all, he’d just won a wager after scientists had just announced their Higgs boson discovery at the Large Hadron Collider particle physics experiment in Switzerland. He made another bet – but he’s doesn’t feel as confident today.
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The High Schoolers Hunting For The Universe’s Secrets
Four British schoolboys had just been called from class. They were 10 days away from their A-level exams, the ones that determine the direction the rest of their lives would take, but they’d been interrupted from their studies to discuss the deepest secrets of the universe — their work hunting for the magnetic monopole at…
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A Trail Of Strange Physics Results Offers Tantalising Hints Of New Particles
Conceptually, particle physics experiments are surprisingly simple. Smash a buttload of particles together, and look at what comes out. The results will either confirm whatever the business-as-usual theory is, or, if there’s a really crystal clear deviation from that theory, they might prove some new hypothesis about some new particles. But the middle ground, where…
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Corpse Of Weasel Killed By Large Hadron Collider Displayed In Twisted Museum Exhibition
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex machine in the world, but it only took one adventurous weasel to shut it down in November of last year. The unfortunate fellow jumped over a substation fence and was hit by 18,000 volts of electricity. Now, its stuffed corpse is on display at the…