As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite particles?”, I realise […] … learn more→
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The standard model of particle physics may be broken – an expert explains
Let\’s get small
At the end of \”The Incredible Shrinking Man\” (1957), our unfortunate hero — having survived encounters with a house cat and a spider on the way down — finds himself smaller than an atom, with no end in sight. We see him awaken on what looks like a planet, made up (one reckons) of even […] … learn more→
