symmetry magazine | dimensions of particle physics
Nov 5, 2024 · Symmetry is an online magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science, from interdisciplinary collaborations to policy to culture.
Seeing the full picture with line-intensity mapping
Aug 15, 2023 · With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement
Sep 24, 2024 · Quantum entanglement links subatomic particles in a way that appears to defy logic. When scientists measure one of a pair of entangled particles, the other seems to immediately know the result.
The deconstructed Standard Model equation - symmetry magazine
Section 2. Almost half of this equation is dedicated to explaining interactions between bosons, particularly W and Z bosons. Bosons are force-carrying particles, and there are four species of bosons that interact with other particles using three fundamental forces.
How do neutrinos get their mass? | symmetry magazine
An alternative to the Higgs. The most popular theory proposes a completely new mass mechanism at play that is not within the Standard Model, one which introduces an entirely new particle.
What is a photon? - symmetry magazine
From wave, to particle, to boson. People have investigated the nature of light since ancient times, with early insights coming from philosophers and scholars in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and Greece.
Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson | symmetry magazine
Sep 10, 2024 · Visible matter is made from only a handful of particles, but many more are behind the scenes, affecting what those matter particles do. The W boson, predicted in the 1960s and discovered at CERN in 1983, is one of these cosmic masterminds.
What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe
Feb 21, 2023 · When it was first discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson captured the popular imagination and became the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. One way scientists knew for sure that the object they discovered was indeed the long-theorized Higgs particle involved identifying one of its unique qualities: It is the only “scalar” …
Ten things you might not know about antimatter
Antimatter is the stuff of science fiction. In the book and film Angels and Demons, Professor Langdon tries to save Vatican City from an antimatter bomb.Star Trek’s starship Enterprise uses matter-antimatter annihilation propulsion for faster-than-light travel.. But antimatter is also the stuff of reality. Antimatter particles are almost identical to their matter counterparts except that ...
The Planck scale - symmetry magazine
Sep 24, 2024 · In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws. Using just five constants in nature (including the speed of light and the gravitational constant), you, me and even aliens from Alpha Centauri could arrive at …