The goal of particle physics is to categorize and mathematically describe the properties and interactions of particles. It turns out that there exist more particles than one might assume, and the story gets more complicated the further back you look in the universe’s history. Shortly after the universe began, what physicists call the Big Bang,…Continue Reading Rethinking Matter Formation in the Early Universe
The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been tremendously successful in describing how the known particles interact with one another, whether it be how charged particles interact or how the fundamental particles obtain mass. Despite its successes, there are still a number of phenomena that have yet to be explained within the SM,…Continue Reading Emergent Solution to the Strong CP Problem
When we think of a planet in orbit around a star, we have been conditioned to believe the path of the orbit traces out a circle. Unfortunately, this is incorrect; and even worse, science has known this to be incorrect for hundreds(!) of years. Dating back to 1609, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler published his…Continue Reading Highly Eccentric Jovian