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Science News
March 28, 2009 |
The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln conveys the excitement surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in this non-fictional book.   |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
JR Minkel |
A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now Black holes won't eat anyone alive, particles won't be discovered and, most important, the action will happen off-camera. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle' The energy released by the Large Hadron Collider could at last nail down that holy grail of contemporary physics, the Higgs boson, and may even finally unveil the secret of dark matter. |
Scientific American
April 2006 |
The Collider Calamity While the Europeans and Japanese build new particle accelerators, the U.S. is poised to shut down its premier colliders at Fermilab and SLAC over the next few years. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Giselle Weiss |
CERN's Discerning Detectors Detecting and processing Higgs boson particles has required scientists and engineers to develop silicon pixel sensors for a new kind of detector. The new device is the latest in several generations of electronic particle detectors introduced since the late 1960s. |
Scientific American
October 2005
Marguerite Holloway |
The Beauty of Branes Lisa Randall's thinking on higher dimensions, warped space and membranes catalyzed ideas in cosmology and physics. It might even unify all four forces of nature. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
John Pavlus |
Ace Quantum Mechanics--the Reality TV Way! With the announcement of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, quantum physics is becoming a conversation topic at parties. Here is your guide to understanding the terms. |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005 |
The Weight of the World The 7000-ton Atlas detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the centerpiece of the biggest particle physics experiment ever undertaken. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
| Science News |
Book Review: The Lightness Of Being: Mass, Ether, And The Unification Of Forces By Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe - combining the enthusiasm of someone like Jeff Corwin with the thoughtfulness of a David Attenborough. |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend This weekend, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will perform preliminary tests in the Large Hadron Collider's "big ring" in anticipation of a Sept. 10 start date. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change |
AskMen.com
July 3, 2012
Dave Golokhov |
Higgs Boson Scientists may have made a miraculous discovery of something we've been in search of for a generation. No, it's not Waldo, Paris Hilton's soul or who shot Tupac. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
David Kushner |
Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages In a twist of timing unto itself, the DVD release of The Time Tunnel comes when the real science of warped passages is making waves. Warped Passages is the trippy and groundbreaking book on the hidden dimensions of the universe by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. |
Wired
April 2004
Richard Martin |
The God Particle and the Grid The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy. |
Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory This month's featured collection, the Fermilab website, is not only among the best examples of scientific information dissemination on the web, it is also one of the oldest U.S. websites... |
Science News
January 20, 2007 |
Science Safari: Global Number Cruncher With a colorful, animated slide show, this Web site introduces visitors to the way vast streams of physics data will flow from the world's most powerful particle accelerator to 7,000 physicists around the world. |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Mark Alpert |
Fermilab Looks for Visitors from Another Dimension A prototype liquid-argon detector called ArgoNeuT will pave the way for the MicroBooNE facility at Fermilab |
Science News
March 11, 2006 |
Quark Colors The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility offers an online six-page coloring book devoted to particle physics and quarks. |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
