In the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, scientists smashed together beams of protons and looked for the Higgs boson. On July 4, 2012, they announced that that Higgs boson had been finally found. […]
With the discovery of W and Z bosons, much of electroweak theory had been confirmed. In 1991, the CERN laboratory turned on a much bigger accelerator, called LEP, to look for Higgs boson. […]
Modern electroweak theory predicted that there should be a massless photon, a massive neutral particle called Z boson, two massive electrically charged particles called W bosons, and a massive and neutral particle called Higgs boson. […]
Electromagnetism and weak nuclear force were unified into a combined force called the electroweak force. The electroweak unification predicted four particles that carried the electroweak force and had zero mass. […]
Among the experiments done to better explain neutrinos have been the SuperK and SNO, designed to observe atmospheric and solar neutrinos, respectively. […]
We know that neutrinos come from nuclear reactors. The fact that the Sun is a massive reactor helped American chemist Ray Davis conduct experiments to measure neutrinos. […]
Using a complicated detector, physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan managed to shot a ton of neutrinos hourly. Later, another team of researcher found out that there were two kinds of neutrinos. […]
Among the most mysterious particles in our universe was a ghostly kind, which would take plenty of time to be detected and understood. These could even cross our bodies with no harm. […]
Alden Mead argues that, although gravity is the weakest fundamental force of nature, its role and effect can’t be ignored when it comes to very small scales. […]
In addition to introducing the Planck constant, Max Planck realized that he could take ratios of five fundamental constants using just one unit and thus managed to solve any potential for miscommunication. […]
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