Theoretical physicist Matt Strassler takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.
I’ll be spending the remainder of this week at the 2nd Scicomm Collider conference, hosted at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, and organized by astrophysicist and writer Katie Mack. I’m very much looking forward to it! Next week I’ll be back in Massachusetts, in the town of Northampton, where I’ll be speaking about my […]
ON 05/08/2024
[This is a follow-up to Monday’s post, going more into depth.] Among the known elementary particles are three cousins: the electron, the muon and the tau. The three are identical in all known experiments — they have all the same electromagnetic and weak nuclear interactions, and no strong nuclear interactions — except for effects that […]
ON 05/07/2024
