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The hunt for supersymmetry: Is a choke on the cards?
As scientists have progressed by leaps and bounds in making discoveries and confirming new ideas, they have been disappointed by how one of their favorite theories has been unable to post a positive status update in… years. Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Cold Molecule Electron, bosons, dark matter, electron dipole moment, fermions, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, mesons, particle physics, Project X, Standard Model, Steven Weinberg, superspace, supersymmetry
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The non-Nobel for Satyen Bose
Last week, as the Nobel Prizes were announced and Peter Higgs and Francois Englert won the highly coveted physics prize, dust was kicked up in India – just as it was in July and then in September 2012 – about … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, bosons, Francois Englert, Nobel Prize for physics 2013, Peter Higgs, post-colonialism, recognition, Satyendra Nath Bose
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Assuming this universe…
Accomplished physicists I have met or spoken with in the last four months professed little agreement over which parts of physics were set-in-stone and which parts simply largely-corroborated hypotheses. Here are some of them, with a short description of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bosons, compactification of extra dimensions, gluons, Millennium Prize, non-perturbative string theory, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Yang-Mills theory
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