TNWIs the multiverse actually real? A physicist explains the conceptverified_publisherTNW - The ConversationWhether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically respectable if you use the word multiverse. The Marvel multiverse puts different versions of our universe “out there”, somewhere. In these films, with the right blend of technology, magic, and …
TNWWhy the standard model of particle physics seems to be brokenverified_publisherTNW - The ConversationAs a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite …
TNWCould scientists accidentally destroy the Earth with a lab-grown black hole?verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneWhat happens when science goes wrong, and humankind’s technological hubris causes global calamity? Usually, the credits roll, these types of scenarios are almost always science fiction. But, since it’s black hole week at NASA, we thought we’d have a little fun imagining the complete and accidental …
TNWA regular person's guide to hybrid quantum computingverified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneStephen Hawking once suggested Albert Einstein’s assertion that “God does not play dice” with the universe was wrong. In Hawking’s view, the discovery of black hole physics confirmed that not only did God play dice, “but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.” Are …
TNWThe W boson is bigger than we thought — a physicist explainsverified_publisherTNW - The Conversation“You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right.” These were some of the opening remarks from David Toback, leader of the Collider Detector at Fermilab, as he announced the results of a decadelong experiment to measure the mass of a particle called the W boson. …
TNW5 ways SpaceTech is solving some of Earth’s biggest problemsverified_publisherTNW - Andrea HakAlthough the space race between Bezos, Branson, and Musk dominated the headlines last year, the growing SpaceTech revolution will be about more than billionaires blasting off to space in dildo-shaped rockets. Rather than seeing who can go furthest (or who’s got the bigger rocket), the much more …
