“Perhaps we are here only for saying: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate…,” says the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
Articles with Particles
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Computer visualization of a high-energy particle collision • McCauley, Thomas; Taylor, Lucas; for the CMS Collaboration (CC BY-SA 3.0)
What is the Higgs boson anyway?
American high-energy particle physicists want $10 billion of the taxpayer’s money to build the Superconducting Supercollider, a colossal particle-accelerating machine in a 50-mile-long tunnel under the Texas prairie.
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Elementary particles — is that all there is to us?
Songwriter Meredith Willson thought he knew why the sky is blue and birds sing. Nobel-prizewinning physicist Steven Weinberg thinks he knows too.
ATLAS experiment at CERN • CERN (CC BY 4.0)
Particle accelerators and matters of faith
It is a common conceit among high-energy particle physicists to compare their giant accelerating machines to the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages.
Is anything forever?
In this day when everything seems to break down the day after the warranty expires, it would be nice to know that something lasts forever. Unfortunately, science seems determined to remove the last vestiges of permanence from the universe.