What the Higgs are you talking about?
- By Umberto Cannella
- September 21, 2012
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It’s been a little while since the big announcement has been made: two experiments at CERN have discovered a new fundamental particle of Nature, one that very much resembles the famous Higgs Boson, also known as the God particle. A view of the ATLAS experiment at CERN: the level of … Continue Reading →
Who cares about gravity?
- By Umberto Cannella
- August 22, 2012
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Numerical simulation of two merging black holes performed by the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany: what this rendition shows through colors is the degree of perturbation of the spacetime fabric, the so-called gravitational waves. Credit: Werner Benger Who cares about gravity? Shouldn’t this be a settled question by now? This … Continue Reading →
