Large Hadron Collider

World’s Most Powerful Particle Collider to Restart in March 2015 – What Can We Expect?

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[Updated/corrected, April 22, 2015] The world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — is scheduled to restart in March of 2015, after a two year hiatus for repairs and upgrades (and data analysis). The machine is located at CERN (in Switzerland) the largest and most prestigious high energy physics laboratory in […]

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'Super Symmetry' Theory Fails Collider Tests – Physicists Must Seek New 'Theories of Everything'

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It was perhaps particle physics’ most elegant and aesthetically appealing theory of (almost) everything: Super Symmetry (SUSY). SUSY, a type of gauge theory developed over the past thirty years, was an ambitious attempt to integrate elementary particle physics with a broader theoretical understanding of the cosmos — an attempt to approach a ‘Theory of Everything.’

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Science Roundup – Chimp News, Rodent Empathy, Name That Whale Tune, Most Massive Black Holes, About That God (Darn) Particle

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The following is a roundup of some of the more notable, or intriguing, science news items from the past month or so… Funding for Most Biomedical Experiments using Chimps is Curtailed – New Ethics Rules The  movement to ban the use of chimpanzees (mostly Pan troglodytes) in biomedical experiments has been steadily growing over the

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CERN: 'Speed of Light Exceeded' (Maybe) – Physics World Excited, but Skeptical

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The news from CERN physicists that the speed of light “may have been exceeded” sent a lightning bolt of excitement and disbelief (not quite surpassing the speed of light) through the world’s physics community. Fully accepting that their results would be met with great skepticism, the same physicists are inviting other particle physicists and labs to verify — or disprove — their results, which, if validated, will overturn one of the principle tenets of modern physics: that nothing travels faster than the speed of ligh

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