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Muons: The Subatomic Particles Shaking Up the World of Physics
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First discovered in the late 1930s, muons are passing through you and everything around you at a speed close to light, as cosmic rays strike particles in our planet's atmosphere. So what are muons and how are they informing the new physics?
How Atoms Work
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Atoms are in your body, the chair you are sitting in, your desk and even in the air. Learn about the particles that make the universe possible.
What Is CERN?
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Decades before you ever heard of the Higgs, this multinational particle physics lab was smashing its way to answers about how the universe worked. Pop inside CERN just as half of the world's particle physicists do every year.
Has a surfer discovered the theory of everything?
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The theory of everything seeks to explain the workings of every single aspect in the universe. Learn more about A. Garrett Lisi's theory of everything.
Quarks Are the Building Blocks of All Matter
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Protons and neutrons, the particles that form the nuclei of atoms, are themselves made up of even smaller particles known as quarks.
How Atom Smashers Work
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Atom smashers are used to help us discover what matter is made of. Learn about atom smashers and find out how an atom smasher works.
Are Creatures Living Among Us in Parallel Dimensions?
We've yet to find intelligent life outside of planet Earth. But instead of space, should we be looking right here but in other dimensions?
Quantum Entanglement Is the Strangest Phenomenon in Physics, But What Is It?
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Einstein famously called the phenomenon "spooky action at a distance," and physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their work on it, but what is quantum entanglement?
What Exactly Is the Higgs Boson?
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Who wants to reduce our complicated universe down to its simplest building blocks? A bunch of particle physicists, that's who. Why is the Higgs boson critical to that goal?
Does the Higgs boson exist?
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As of July 4, 2012, the Higgs boson (maybe) exists (or at least something very like it very probably does).