Conversations About Science with Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler
Back in the California Gold Rush, many people panning for gold saw a yellow glint at the bottom of their pans, and thought themselves lucky. But more often than not, it was pyrite — iron sulfide — fool’s gold… Back in December 2015, a bunch of particle physicists saw a bump on a plot. The … Read more
Back in December 2015, there was some excitement when the experiments ATLAS and CMS at the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] — especially ATLAS — reported signs of an unexpectedly large number of proton-proton collisions in which two highly energetic photons [particles of light] were produced, and the two photons could possibly have been produced in a decay … Read more