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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | On this blog, I write about particle physics for the general public. I try to make things as simple as possible, but I do have to assume some things. In particular, I usually assume you know what particles are! This time, I won't do that. I know some people out there don't know what a... | |
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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Why did physicists expect to see something new at the LHC, more than just the Higgs boson? Mostly, because of something called naturalness. Naturalness, broadly speaking, is the idea that there shouldn't be coincidences in physics. If two numbers that appear in your theory cancel out almost perfectly, there should be a reason that they... | |
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tritonstation.com
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| | | | | Given recent developments in the long-running hunt for dark matter and the difficulty interpreting what this means, it seems like a good juncture to re-up* this: The history of science is a decision tree. Vertices appear where we must take one or another branching. Sometimes, we take the wrong road for the right reasons. A... | |
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neurologism.com
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| | | (Alternate title: In Soviet Russia, Mirror Neurons Explain YOU!) A draft of this post has been sitting around for a few weeks, and while I'm happy with today's sanity check, I still can't help but suspect that I am missing something in the debate on "action understanding". So I am happy to be convinced that... | ||
