Tag: particle physics
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MY BOOK CHAPTER! The architecture of Fermilab
I’m a science writer by profession (obviously), but occasionally I get the chance to write about something fun that’s only tangentially related to science. A while back, Belt Publishers — which publishes books and a magazine about the part of the American Midwest known as the Rust Belt — solicited pitches for chapters on a…
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Forging dark matter in the Big Bang
[ 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 origins of dark matter Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang For Symmetry Magazine: Transitions are everywhere we look. Water freezes,…
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Information ain’t no good if you can’t get to it
[ 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 most important website in particle physics The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science For Symmetry Magazine:…
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The lowdown on the highest energy light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere For Symmetry Magazine: Gamma rays are the most energetic…
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The search for a “theory of everything”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] All four one and one for all A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible? For Symmetry Magazine: Over the…
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Are neutrinos their own worst enemies?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] EXO-200 resumes its underground quest The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles For Symmetry Magazine: Science is often about serendipity: being open to new…
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The GUTsy effort to unify the quantum forces
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A GUT feeling about physics Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory For Symmetry Magazine: The 1970s were a heady time in…
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Some light reading about light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] As I mentioned before, I’m branching out a bit and writing some listicles for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covered gravity, and the second covers… light! Eight things…
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A new detector in the hunt for particles and the origin of matter
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Belle II and the matter of antimatter Go inside the new detector looking for why we’re here For Symmetry Magazine: We live in a world full of matter: stars…
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Why are neutrino masses so tiny?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Neutrinos on a seesaw A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe. For Symmetry Magazine: Mass is a fundamental property…
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