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more about #physics Dresan: "If there is a strong connection between the physics of dark matter and the physics of mass generation..." Mass generation? WHAT. more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Fortunately, already known to science is the elusive "Higgins" Boson... more » Spaceknight: wait... if they've captured the data but haven't analyzed it yet, is it really discovered already? that kind of bottom line result doesn't work for ... more » Quilt: So I'm completely naive and uninformed on this subject, but could someone explain (in laymens terms) what the significance would be of discovering the... more » Gann: I don't get it. The Higgs Boson is supposed to be the mythical particle that gives all particles their mass. Why would we be able to see one million... more » Log1c: Yeah but the FERMI telescope doesn't have Gordon Freeman. more » Roklimber: WIMPs and Randall-Sundrum models aren't in the realm of my expertise but, from the little I know, these models are pretty esoteric, with little or no ... more » Mecharine: So the time travelers who came to sabotage the LHC were here to actually win a bar bet? more » Lunargent: Soon, soon we can have a new They Might Be Giants single that is easy to remember and will teach me almost everything I need to know about this subject. more » futuremouse: The real question is: which one is going to be responsible for the end of the world in 2012? more » Ruthless, If you let me: Yes! The birds can't stop us in space. more » Slinkytech: This is all assuming there is a Higgs boson particle. What if they're wrong? Billions on the LHC would be such an embarrassment. Though, I understa... more » GreyHammer: how much prog rock do you have to listen to in order to work on problems like this? more » Blue_Thark: "Higgs in space." Love it. So if the Higgs is actually trying to prevent it's own discovery, hence all the LHC failure, wouldn't it also have tried t... more » The Curse of Millhaven: They already use Higgs bosons to cook fish in Eureka. more » Gaucho85: I'm still kind of waiting for the LHC to open up a gateway and the shoggoth finding its way here. more » Roklimber: It saddens me beyond description that it's necessary for very busy people at a real research facility to address what should be obvious to everyone, t... more » hagridore: Oh fuck! Did they just debunk a science FICTION TV show? Learn 'em good. more » eve804: what about the particle accelerator at CERN that IS beginning to use protons, "thus increasing the intensity"? [public.web.cern.ch] more » Jesse Astle: So... the lesson of Flashforward is never to science ever again? more » -
#higgsboson
What If The Large Hadron Collider Was Beaten To The Physics Punch?
The mooted risks of the Large Hadron Collider are all worthwhile if it uncovers evidence of the Higgs boson, right...? But what if something else found that proof first, and without all the sturm-und-drang? More » -
#badscience
Physicists to FlashForward: You Are Full Of Crap
On physics-gone-haywire show FlashForward, characters recently suggested that an accelerator in Palo Alto, CA might have caused a worldwide blackout that killed millions by conducting "proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration" experiments. Now scientists at the real accelerator in Palo Alto have responded. More » -
#mysteryspiral
Norway Light Spiral Was a Failed Missile Launch, Says Scientist [Updated]
New Scientist is reporting that the strange spiral of light that Norwegians saw in the sky two nights ago was in fact a failed Russian missile launch. More » -
#madscience
Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding
Take that, bread-dropping bird. Despite numerous delays and the suggestion that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future, the LHC is up and running. And, for the very first time, it has collided two proton beams. More » -
#awesomeness
All Systems Go For Large Hadron Collider - Stay Tuned for Collisions!
Discover has a blow-by-blow account of today's tests on the Large Hadron Collider, the massive physics experiment that will eventually recreate the conditions during the Big Bang. Everything worked perfectly. Get ready for particle collisions next week! [via Discover] -
#madphysics
Large Hadron Collider Less Than Two Weeks Away From First Experiments
It's been plagued by everything from liquid helium leaks to wayward baguettes, but the mega-physics experiment known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally ready to start smashing protons into each other. Particle collisions could begin in two weeks. More » -
#largehadroncollider
Bird-Related Accident Suggests the Large Hadron Collider Really Is Doomed
The LHC has been so plagued by problems and shutdowns that some physicists have wondered if it's being sabotaged by its own future. And the LHC has fallen victim to another bizarre shutdown involving a bird and a baguette. More » -
#unknowablescience
It's What We Don't Know That Scares Physicists
Wondering what conundrums give physicists sleepless nights? If the suggestions posed at a panel at the Quantum To Cosmos festival are to be believed, they're all to do with whether or not reality is what we think it is... More » -
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#largehadroncollider
Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?
What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson. More » -
#nobelprizes
Nobel Prize Wins Proves Need For Government Funding
It's not just President Obama who brought Nobel glory to the United States this week - Americans also won the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, proving the need for government funding for research, say US scientists. More » -
#superherophysics
The Grand Unified Theory of Superman's Powers
Superman is one of those superheroes who has a whole constellation of abilities rather than a discrete superpower. But one fan theory suggests that all these abilities — from superstrength to heat vision — stem from a single superpower. More » -
#zombiephysics
Physics Proves the Mall is the Best Zombie Hideout After All
So, you're in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Do you head for the hills, or take refuge in a mall? A new physics paper says that hunkering down in a sprawling shopping center will increase your odds of survival. More » -
#magnets
Physicists Discover A Magnet With Only One Pole
Magnets, as most people know, are always dipoles: each magnet has both a north and a south pole. But a team of German scientists has generated a previously only theoretical magnetic feature: a magnetic monopole. More » -
#thetimetravelerswife
Quantum Physicist Approves the Time Traveler's Wife
Tragic love stories may not be your thing, but physicist Dave Goldberg says there's another reason to be excited for the film adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife: it's the most accurate time travel movie you'll see all year. More » -
#physicscenterfold
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
Physicist Janna Levin last year published a paper where she offers a way to understand what happens to objects trapped in the intense gravitational field around rotating black holes. As this chart shows, there are many paths to the singularity. More » -
#madscience
The Mysterious Lizards Who Swim In Sand
When the tiny lizard known as the sandfish moves through sand, it literally dives under the surface of the ground as if swimming. Now physicists have figured out how they do it - and want to build sandfish robots. More » -
#madscience
Now You Can Literally Create Objects Out Of Thin Air
At last, you can make things disappear. Scientists have created a device for disappearing unwanted objects. The crazy part is that it can make objects seem to appear as well. More » -
#endofscience
Has Science Outsmarted Itself?
Do we know too much about the origins of the universe to allow for any new scientific breakthroughs? That's a theory being put forward by one British journalist, but do scientists agree? More » -
#atmosphericconditions
The Cloud That Proved The 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was A Comet
The mysterious Tunguska explosion in 1908 leveled hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest, leaving trees flattened to the ground. New evidence, based on strange, glowing clouds in the upper atmosphere, proves that Tunguska wasn't caused by aliens after all. More »
