(PhysOrg.com) -- The Enriched Xenon Observatory-200, a prototype observatory that will search for exotic decays of fundamental particles of matter, passed a significant if unofficial milestone last month: its detector registered ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2011
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Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity are both extremely accurate theories of how the universe works, but all attempts to combine the two into a unified theory have ended in failure. When physicists ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 17, 2009
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Since the 1960s, scientists have discovered more than a dozen fundamental particles. They all have fit perfectly into the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model, the best description physicists have of the subatomic ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2024
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Scientists can use powerful colliders to smash atomic nuclei together to create a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This "soup" of quarks and gluons, some of the fundamental building blocks of matter, filled the early universe. Tracking ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 10, 2023
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Scientists are unleashing the power of neutrons to improve understanding of everyday materials and tackle fundamental questions in physics.
General Physics
May 30, 2023
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Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe and live for a much shorter amount of time. But could life evolve there? ...
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Mar 15, 2023
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Neutrinos mind their own business. Each second, billions of these fundamental particles will pass through stars, planets, buildings, and human bodies and will rarely ever be stopped by them, like a subatomic subway crowd. ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 5, 2023
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At this stage in the evolution of the universe (about 14 billion years after the big bang) there are four fundamental forces in action that cause interactions among the constituents of matter.
Quantum Physics
Dec 23, 2022
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The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
General Physics
Apr 10, 2022
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If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: "It follows the Standard Model."
General Physics
Dec 23, 2021
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