The universe may have its own version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and that might be enough to explain dark energy without invoking any new physics at all.
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High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth’s strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.
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The world’s first space-based neutrino detector launched to space this month to study elusive neutrino particles that constantly bombard Earth.
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The ALICE experiment at the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter that filled the universe moments afte…
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will have smashed billions of particles together. In all likelihood, it will have found exactly what it found yesterday: more evidence to support the Standard Model of par…
It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.
Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second most energetic cosmic ray ever to be detected striking Earth.
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In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved version of a cloud chamber, a device that visually reco…
Using the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe just after the Big Bang really was a primordial “soup.”
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At first glance, it seems like our understanding of physics forbids free will.