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Large Hadron Collider discovers five hidden subatomic particles
Five new particles have been discovered 'hiding in plain sight' at the Large Hadron Collider. The discovery comes from the collider's LHCb detector, or LHC beauty, which searches for objects such as antimatter. The five new particles are examples of baryons, which means they are made up of three fundamental particles called quarks, and all of them were discovered at once. "The exceptionality of this discovery is that observing five new states all at once is a rather unique event," said CERN's Stefania Pandolfi.
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Our Quest to Find a One-Sided Magnet Just Took an Unexpected Turn
Of the many 'white whales' that theoretical physicists are pursuing, the elusive magnetic monopole - a magnetic with only one pole - is one of the most confounding.
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A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind
Using human consciousness as the trigger in a test of ‘spooky action at a distance’ could tell us whether mind is made of different stuff than matter
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Wibbly-wobbly magnetic fusion stuff: The return of the stellarator
Artistically shaped magnets may make stellarators easier to manage than ITER.
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Stunning Footage Captured From Inside A Fusion Reactor
This immensely high-speed footage was released captured inside the Compass Tokamak at Institute of Plasma Physics IPP. It's a pretty beautiful sight, and it shows what happens inside these huge devices.
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This Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past
One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea – that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards.
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LHC pops out a new particle that could test the strong force
Researchers on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have found a new particle, unlike any other seen yet, which could help study one of the universe’s four fundamental forces. By Jacob Aron and Leah Crane.
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Scientists have discovered an entirely new type of particle
Scientists have found an extra charming new subatomic particle that they hope will help further explain a key force that binds matter together. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced on Thursday the fleeting discovery of a long theorised but never-before-seen type of baryon. Baryons are subatomic particles made up of quarks. Protons and neutrons are the most common baryons. Quarks are even smaller particles that come in six types, two common types that are light and four heavier types.
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Lawbreaking Particles May Point to a Previously Unknown Force in the Universe
Scientists aren’t yet certain that electrons and their relatives are violating the Standard Model of particle physics, but the evidence is mounting. By Jesse Dunietz.
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Confirmed: Electrons Flowing Like Liquid in Graphene Are Insanely Superconductive
Electrons have been caught flowing through graphene like a liquid, reaching limits physicists thought were fundamentally impossible.
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First-Ever Evidence of Strange Bouncing Light Particles Has Been Caught in The LHC
Light is pretty awesome. It's made of subatomic particles called photons, which also behave like waves. It's been demonstrated to act like both a particle and a wave simultaneously . Photons can be entangled at a distance . They reflect, refract...
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Quantum computers reach deeper, find ground state of simple hydrides
Six qubits is enough to determine the ground state of three simple molecules.
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Europe is Designing a New Particle Collider to Take On China
CERN, the European nuclear physics research organization, is contemplating the development of a particle accelerator three times larger than the Large Hadron Collider that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, a move intended to match growing Chinese ambitions in particle physics.
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Thunderstorm Turns Into a Nuclear Reactor and Blasts Radiation Everywhere
Satellites have observed gamma-ray flashes before, but this latest flash was unusual in several aspects, and it came with a prize: They observed a burst of subatomic particles (in this case, neutrons) in their detector. By Ryan F. Mandelbaum. (Sept. 19, 2017)
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Physicists Send Particles Of Light Into The Past, Proving Time Travel Is Possible!
Scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia, have used single particles of light (photons) to simulate quantum particles travelling through time. They showed that one photon can pass through a wormhole and then interact with its older self. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.
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This Overlooked Theory Could Be The Missing Piece That Explains How The EM Drive Works
Ever since the EM drive first made headlines , science lovers have puzzled over how the propulsion system seems to produce thrust , despite the fact it's 'impossible' according to one of the most fundamental laws of physics - Newton's third law of...
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Tom’s Top 10 interpretations of quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics has given birth to dozens of interpretations, which themselves need interpretations.
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Quantum Weirdness of Light Was Just Confirmed by Shooting Photons Into Space
Quantum physics' two-faced nature has been put to the test over and over again, and every time it's still damn weird.
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[PDF Warning] The Dawn of the Post-Naturalness Era
In an imaginary conversation with Guido Altarelli, I express my views on the status of particle physics beyond the standard Model and its future prospects.
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Measurements from CERN suggest the possibility of a new physics
We're about to lift the veil to a new universe. By Brad Bergan.
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