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Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a fundamental particle that underlies matter and life in the universe, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh confirms in a statement.
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
At the same time, muons are fundamental particles that put all their energy into a collision, enabling a muon collider to compete with a hadron collider running at 10 times the energy.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
In the very beginning, the universe was searing plasma, a soup of fundamental particles and energy.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
After decades of theoretical prediction were borne out by the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, which confirmed how other particles get their mass, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has failed to find any other new fundamental particles.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
Science does deal with things that can’t be observed, such as fundamental particles, quantum wave functions, maybe even other universes.
—Philip Goff, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
Around that time, physicists trying to devise theories that unified the forces of nature started toying with the idea that fundamental particles such as electrons are in reality composed of exceedingly tiny vibrating strings.
—Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
String theory replaces all the fundamental particles of nature with tiny, vibrating strings.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle — an evil twin of identical mass but endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
At the same time, muons are fundamental particles that put all their energy into a collision, enabling a muon collider to compete with a hadron collider running at 10 times the energy.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
In the very beginning, the universe was searing plasma, a soup of fundamental particles and energy.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
After decades of theoretical prediction were borne out by the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, which confirmed how other particles get their mass, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has failed to find any other new fundamental particles.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
Science does deal with things that can’t be observed, such as fundamental particles, quantum wave functions, maybe even other universes.
—Philip Goff, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
Around that time, physicists trying to devise theories that unified the forces of nature started toying with the idea that fundamental particles such as electrons are in reality composed of exceedingly tiny vibrating strings.
—Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
String theory replaces all the fundamental particles of nature with tiny, vibrating strings.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2017
Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle — an evil twin of identical mass but endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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