Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said Thursday that the new particle discovered with enormous fanfare last summer definitely looks like a Higgs boson, the particle famously predicted by Peter Higgs and others to imbue elementary particles with mass. But they said they still needed more data to understand how it works […]
Vasudevan Mukunth There’s an idea called naturalness in physics, and as the process of discovery motors along, it’s becoming more relevant for a bad reason: Nature doesn’t seem natural. In the last few posts, I’ve gone on about natural philosophy, the philosophy of representation, science history, and the importance of interdisciplinary perspectives when studying […]
By Dina Abou Salem Dec 19, 2012 5:36pm Perhaps Earthlings aren’t alone in their celestial neighborhood. An international team of scientists has discovered at least one new habitable planet – and, considering the vastness of space, this planet is fairly close. A planet with conditions that can sustain life was one of […]
It’s pitch-perfect for Hollywood — but this is real. Some of it, anyway. An ancient Mayan prophecy suggests that December 21, 2012, is “doomsday.” The mainstream media fuels fears in the gullible, leading survivalists to hoard candles, bottled water and canned food as the date of the “apocalypse” approaches. Children sob. Teenagers contemplate […]
The most controversies theory with Einstein, Theory of Relativity
Focus Areas The Astrophysics Division has laid out a strategy to discover the origin, structure, evolution of our cosmos. Planets Around Other Stars Throughout recorded history and perhaps before, we have wondered about the possible existence of other worlds, like or unlike our own. The earliest understanding of the solar system showed us that there […]
What Does Science Say 