Tag Archives: Andrei Sakharov

60 years of ‘Tsar Bomba’, history’s most powerful nuke

Posted on October 31, 2021 by

This post was originally published on October 31, 2018. I republished it once in 2020 after Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy corporation, released 40 minutes of previously classified footage of RDS-220’s explosion on August 28, 2020 (embedded below). Watch this … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Alex Wellerstein, Andrei Sakharov, Arzamas-16, John F. Kennedy, lead tamper, Nikita Khrushchev, nuclear fusion, RDS-220, RIPPLE | Comments Off

On meson decay-modes in studying CP violation

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

In particle physics, CPT symmetry is an attribute of the universe that is held as fundamentally true by quantum field theory (QFT). It states that the laws of physics should not be changed and the opposite of all allowed motions … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrei Sakharov, antimatter, B-meson, BaBar experiment, baryogenesis, Belle Experiment, CP-symmetry violation, CPT theorem, flavor oscillations, George Sudarshan, James Cronin, Kaons, mesons, Murray Gell-Mann, Pions, proton decay, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Robert Marshak, Standard Model of particle physics, Val Fitch | Comments Off