supercollider? i just met her!
Despite the loud protests emanating from doomsday fear mongers, physicists and engineers built the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and baddest atom smasher in existence. It hasn’t smashed any atoms...
View Articlethe micro black hole dilemma, revisited
Do you hear the rumble in the background? That’s the Large Hadron Collider getting ready to smash particles and either seal the standard model of particle physics for the foreseeable future, or...
View Articlestrange matter, doomsday and you
Good news everybody. The LHC is up and running and already started colliding particles, though they’re not as powerful as the collider can do when its revved up to full speed, just a measly 900 GeV....
View Articlemaking quark-gluon soup with an atom smasher
Heat is a relative term to those of us living on this planet. The highest natural temperature we’ve recorded is a downright uncomfortable 57.8 °C recorded in Libya, while the coldest is what the vast...
View Articleworld of weird things podcast: why we need particle colliders
Photo from the Collider exhibition by FRAY Studio Dr. Ian O’Neill returns to talk to us about the real world applications of particle colliders, those giant expensive atom smashers which seem to...
View Articlehow fixing particle colliders’ discarded data problem could bring us a better...
One of the biggest stories in particle physics for the last few years has been the fear that we don’t know how to go past the Standard Model as the Large Hadron Collider simply confirmed our existing...
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