Conversations About Science with Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler
Just finished my new article on the hints of a Higgs particle. I hope you find it useful! I have tried to explain, in largely non-technical terms, how experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider are looking for the Higgs, using various methods; what makes methods of this type easy or difficult, with analogies; that the … Read more
Nice post went up yesterday on the ATLAS experiment’s blog [ATLAS is one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider] from Kyle Cranmer (Professor at New York University) ; as I posted on this blog, Kyle gave Friday’s presentation summarizing ATLAS’s results on the search for the Higgs particle. Kyle is a young star … Read more
On the plane back to the US, I put together a couple of answers to very basic questions about particle physics that I often get from friends and acquaintances who know little or nothing about the subject. I hope you find them interesting! Note also: my previous post repeated a misquote of the CERN director … Read more
Taking advantage of our day and a half off from physics talks in Grenoble, I’ve written the answers to some questions that are often asked (or should be asked) about the Higgs particle. I had planned to do a very careful job of explaining what the Higgs particle is all about — and eventually I … Read more