Tag: supersymmetry
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Why falsifiability is a false guide to what is and isn’t science
I had a liberal arts education, which means that I mostly use what I learned to post nonsense on Twitter. However, thanks to my advisor, I got a solid grounding in the philosophy of science. While I’m certainly no philosopher myself, I also (hopefully) have a less simplistic view of how science works and doesn’t […]
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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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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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Supersymmetry in…superconductors?
Symmetry and elegance have proven to be a very successful way to think about the physical Universe. Arguably the greatest successes in 20th century particle physics came from translating mathematical symmetries into predictions about the results of particle collisions. However, not every symmetry thus far has led to a successful theory, and one of the […]
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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 […]
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