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My heart of physics
Every July 4, I have occasion to remember two things: the discovery of the Higgs boson, and my first published byline for an article about the discovery of the Higgs boson. I have no trouble believing it’s been eight years … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, Atomki, axions, CEPC, CERN, CMS detector, hedonism, Higgs boson, Higgs factory, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, Quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, thermodynamics, XENON excess
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UCal Irvine’s ‘fifth force’ farce
If a journalist buys into a UCI press release about some kind of ‘confirmation’ of a fifth force, and which is subsequently found to be simply false, an editor wouldn’t be faced with a tough choice whatsoever about which section she has to axe. Continue reading
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Tagged Atomki, beryllium decay anomaly, dark photon, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Michael Moyer, Nicholas Dirks, protophobic boson, public relations, science journalism, University of California Irvine
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