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Hitler Learns the Tevatron Has Been Shut Down
http://youtu.be/Hqxg5WIFAdQ U.S. particle physicists aren’t the only ones pissed off about the shutdown of the Fermilab Tevatron. When Hitler finds out his Higgs search won’t happen, it triggers a wave of anger and regret as he contemplates his other career options.
Origins of Mass
July 2, 2012
Frank Wilczek Newtonian mechanics posited mass as a primary quality of matter, incapable of further elucidation. We now see Newtonian mass as an emergent property. Most of the mass of standard matter, by far, arises dynamically, from back-reaction of the color gluon fields of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The equations for massless particles support extra symmetries […]
God particle is ‘found’
July 2, 2012
Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered Scientists ‘will say they are 99.99% certain’ the particle has been found Leading physicists have been invited to event – sparking speculation that Higgs Boson particle has been found ‘God Particle’ gives particles that make up atoms their mass Scientists at […]
July 2, 2012
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