Large Hadron Collider
When Particles Collide
This summer, in a 17-mile long tunnel outside Geneva, Switzerland, a particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider is gearing up to smash protons at nearly the speed of light. Physicists hope it will help solve mysteries of the universe and lead to an elusive Unified Theory. Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky looks into the colorful […]
Large Hadron Collider Gets Closer to ‘God’
The press calls it the “God particle,” about to be discovered by a “doomsday machine.” Hyperbole aside, this morning at 8am EST, scientists operating the Large Hadron Collider on the Franco-Swiss border announced their biggest finding yet related to the elusive Higgs boson particle. Two independent teams of CERN researchers reported “tantalizing hints” of the […]
In physics, failure brings almost as much excitement as success
Scientists have used the Standard Model of particle physics since the 1970s. The model has explained and predicted many properties of our universe. But scientists know other particles exist that will fill in the gaps in our current understanding. Finding them is one of the great challenges of this century.
Physicists anxiously await ‘God particle’ announcement from CERN
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday about the elusive “God particle.” Researchers at the facility have spent billions of dollars trying to locate the theoretical particle that forms the basis of modern physics.