Category: Symmetry Magazine
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Be very very quiet, we’re hunting gravitational waves
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Gravitational waves and where to find them Advanced LIGO has just begun its search for gravitational waves For Symmetry Magazine: For thousands of years, astronomy was the province of…
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Of GUTs, glory, and the death of a proton
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Do protons decay? Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime? For Symmetry Magazine: The stuff of daily existence is made of atoms,…
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Why are there three copies of each type of particle?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The mystery of particle generations Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter? For Symmetry Magazine: The Standard Model of particles and interactions is remarkably…
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Emmy Noether and her wonderful theorem
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Mathematician to know: Emmy Noether Noether’s theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science For Symmetry Magazine: We are able to understand the world because it…
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Looking to the heavens for neutrino masses
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Looking to the heavens for neutrino masses From Symmetry Magazine: Neutrinos may be the lightest of all the particles with mass, weighing in at a tiny fraction of the…
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Of symmetries, the strong force and Helen Quinn
[ I am reviving the Bowler Hat Science blog as a quick way to link all my new publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all my stories! ] Of symmetries, the strong force and Helen Quinn From Symmetry: Modern theoretical physicists spend much of their time examining the symmetries governing particles and…
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The dark horse of the dark matter hunt
[ I am reviving the Bowler Hat Science blog as a quick way to link all my new publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all my stories! ] The dark horse of the dark matter hunt From Symmetry Magazine: The ADMX experiment seems to be an exercise in contradictions. Dark matter, the…
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