Tag Archives: LHC

News: Hopeful Higgs Hint at Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on July 26, 2011 by physcarl

A hint of a particle that may or may not be the long sought after Higgs boson has been found in the data from two different experiments on different continents. The Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border and the … Continue reading →

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The standard model, quarks and their conservation laws

Posted on February 25, 2011 by physcarl

In this article Carl briefly discusses quarks, the conservation laws that involve them and how we can use the Standard Model to check whether certain particle interactions are allowed or prohibited… Quarks, we believe, are fundamental particles. This means they … Continue reading →

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Getting down with gravity; what it is and how we describe it

Posted on January 14, 2011 by physcarl

There are four fundamental interactions in nature, gravitation being one of them. We can’t touch it, or see the force itself, but we can feel it and infer its presence from observation of the motion of objects. We are pulled … Continue reading →

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