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What’s the anomaly in a Nobel for Modi?
I’m sure you’ve seen the reports doing the rounds today that some person on some Nobel Prize Committee said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very deserving of the vaunted peace prize, followed by less widely circulated reports that the person … Continue reading
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Tagged binding energy, Narendra Modi, Nobel Prize for peace, Planck scale, Planck units, universal constant
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The strange beauty of Planck units
What does it mean to say that the speed of light is 1? We know the speed of light in the vacuum of space to be 299,792,458 m/s – or about 300,000 km/s. It’s a quantity of speed that’s very … Continue reading
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Tagged Boltzmann constant, Hagedorn temperature, Planck constant, Planck scale, Planck temperature, Planck units, quantum gravity, SI units, speed of light
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A gear-train for particle physics
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics. Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Allanach, CERN, clockwork theory, diphoton channel, Gian Giudice, grand unification, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Matthew McCullough, Maxwell's equations, naturalness problem, particle physics, Planck scale, Rencontres de Moriond, supersymmetry
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