An awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.
Particle physicists describe how elementary particles behave using a set of equations called their “Standard Model.” How did they become so confident that a set of math formulas, ones that can be compactly summarized on a coffee cup, can describe so much of nature? My previous “Celebrations of the Standard Model” (you can find the […]
ON 11/20/2024
Just a brief note, in a very busy period, to alert those in the Providence, RI area that I’ll be giving a colloquium talk at the Brown University Physics Department on Monday November 18th at 4pm. Such talks are open to the public, but are geared toward people who’ve had at least one full year […]
ON 11/15/2024
