Monthly Archives: May 2014
Smaller dinos were harder to wipe out, and they’re still around
The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago didn’t get them all. Some of them survive to this day in the form of birds, and they may have made it because they got smaller. For about 170 million … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, dinosaurs, ecological diversity, environment, evolution, evolutionary morphology
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The secrets of how planets form
Astronomers who were measuring the length of one day on an exoplanet for the first time were in for a surprise: it was shorter than any planet’s in the Solar System. Beta Pictoris b, orbiting the star Beta Pictoris, has … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Beta Pictoris b, centrifugal force, curve plotting, escape velocity, exoplanets, gravitation, Kuiper Belt, monomial, neutron stars, non-linearity, planet formation, Solar System, spin-mass correlation, strong nuclear force
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The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run – 2
I’d linked to a preprint paper [PDF] on arXiv a couple days ago that had summarized the search for Supersymmetry (Susy) from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I’d written to one of the paper’s authors, Pascal Pralavorio … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, CERN, CMS detector, di-jet events, Large Hadron Collider, luminosity, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, probability, Standard Model, supersymmetry
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The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run
What do dark matter, Higgs bosons, the electron dipole moment, topological superconductors and quantum loops have in common? These are exotic entities that scientists have been using to solve some longstanding problems in fundamental physics. Specifically, by studying these entities, they expect … Continue reading
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Tagged dark matter, electron dipole moment, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, quantum loop, Standard Model, supersymmetry, topological superconductor
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