Category: Writing for Other Sites

• Too many heavy particles could mean trouble for the Standard Model

  The Standard Model (SM) of particles and interactions provides a successful description of most of the matter we know of. However, physicists have known for many years that it is not complete: the SM predicted massless neutrinos, and has no place for dark matter. A new result from the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 11, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  Ars Technica, Higgs boson, particle physics, Standard Model, supersymmetry

• Black holes don’t suck!

  So This Physicist Walked Into a Bar….. I gave a talk last week at Science Pub RVA, a local (Richmond, Virginia) gathering of science enthusiasts. At the link above, you can read a (long) summary of my presentation, including the images I used.

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 11, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Public speaking, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, Galileo’s Pendulum