Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world was recently able to obtain temperatures that make the Sun look frigid. By colliding heavy lead ions head-on inside its detectors, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to achieve temperatures ... |
16 June 2011
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Investigators now suggest that neutron stars – objects which form following supernova events – may over time transform into strange stars. The latter is a type of stellar object that is made out of ”strange”quarks, a specific type of elementary particle. In the Standard Model, there are three ... |
20 May 2011
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Physicists operating one of the three main particle detectors on the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) 27-kilometer tunnels announce that they were able to observe a state of matter that they believe permeated the Universe shortly after the Big Bang inflated everything into being.After the quantum fluctuation event ... |
6 January 2011
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As soon as physicists announced that they would open the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), critics jumped up saying that the machine will become capable of producing small black holes that could endanger our planet and civilization. While physicists have shown these rumors to be a complete fabrication, especially as far a... |
29 March 2010
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Researchers at the University of Glasgow believe that the Bc meson, one of the newest types of hypothesized elementary particles, may have already been unknowingly produced in particle accelerators such as the Tevatron, in Illinois. Facilities operated by CERN, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and others, ma... |
26 January 2010
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The Big Bang is at this point the most widely accepted theory on the beginning of the Universe. It states that everything around us, plus dark matter and dark energy, emerged from a singularity, a powerful event that took place about 13.7 billion years ago. While its outcome is largely known today, as in the galaxies... |
15 January 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have recently observed for the first time the hypothesized confinement of spinons inside condensed matter. The structures are nothing more than particle-like magnetic excitations, which, apparently, can be confined in very muc... |
30 November 2009
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Where is all that strange substance we now call antimatter? Theory predicts that, in the first few seconds of the universe, matter and antimatter were found in roughly the same proportion, but somehow most of the antimatter was annihilated during interactions with matter. These annihilation processes eventually left ... |
19 March 2008
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Recent studies show they might have not. Powered with energy, resulted from the interaction between ordinary matter and dark matter, and having masses between 400 to 200,000 times that of the Sun, these so-called "dark stars" could have been the first structures to ever populate the universe.It is now widely believed... |
3 December 2007
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The current standard models postulate that quarks and leptons are the basic building blocks of all matter. However, in the 1970s, some scientists argued that quarks are not fundamental particles, but are themselves composed of other smaller particles called preons. Though the preon particles sparked a lot of excitem... |
22 November 2007
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One of the last key components of the Large Hadron Collider-beauty has been finally installed. VELO or the Vertex Locator is built around the proton interaction region of the LHCb. LHCb is one of the four largest experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, expected to be operational in 2008.The Large Hadron Col... |
13 November 2007
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Our Universe could be made of more than the three space dimensions we can perceive through our limited senses. In addition to length, width and depth, one or more spatial dimensions could exist in exotic places in space.This is exactly what a team of astronomers wants to search for, in the regions of space around de... |
25 June 2007
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Every observed physical phenomenon can be explained by the four fundamental forces, and the strong interaction is the most complicated one, explaining how particles interact with one another. Fermions are particles with half-integer spin, divided into two groups: quarks and leptons. The quarks make up protons and ne... |
7 June 2007
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