Nearly 400 years ago, as the legend goes, Sir Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head. This gave him the idea that the laws of nature “up there” keeping the planets around the sun, must be the same laws “down here” keeping his feet on the ground. Newton…Continue Reading A Fifth Force of Nature? Forging New Frontiers in Physics
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Taking a leaf from statistics to find new physics!
Particle physicists at CERN are trying to unlock the secrets of the universe by testing our current theory about how it works and looking for holes. These holes are suspected to come in the form of yet undiscovered particles that our current theory can’t describe. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland speeds up…Continue Reading Taking a leaf from statistics to find new physics!