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An awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.

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In a previous post, I showed you that the Standard Model, armed with its special angle θw of approximately 30 degrees, does a pretty good job of predicting a whole host of processes in the Standard Model. I focused attention on the decays of the Z boson, but there were many more processes mentioned in […]

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ON 12/19/2024

Well, gosh… what nice news as 2024 comes to a close… My book has received a ringing endorsement from Ethan Siegel, the science writer and Ph.D. astrophysicist who hosts the well-known, award-winning blog “Starts with a Bang“. Siegel’s one of the most reliable and prolific science writers around — he writes for BigThink and has […]

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ON 12/17/2024

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