Failing again. Failing better.
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva announced, with five sigma certainty (that’s a 99.9999% confidence level) that they have discovered a particle that exists at an energy level consistent with the Higgs particle, according to the Standard Model. So let me back up. Under the Standard Model, particle physics have theorized that there…
Last week, I gave readers a heads up on an upcoming announcement by Planetary Resources and the possibility that it might be an asteroid mining company. Well, yesterday, Planetary Resources held their press conference, and they plan on doing things even more impressive than mining. They could have a big impact on the future of…
I came across a couple of articles that called attention to an upcoming announcement by a new company called Planetary Resources and the possibility that it will operate as an asteroid mining business. On Tuesday, April 24, Planetary Resources will host a conference call that it claims will “create a new industry and a new…
Here we go, folks. Yet another update on the faster than light (FTL) neutrinos reported by CERN experiments (previous posts here, here, and here). As a brief recap, last September, Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L’Aquila that appeared to travel FTL. According to…
This morning, my Twitter feed (@erchristensen) lit up during the CERN press conference, so it’s only fitting that I post something here. What? Your Twitter feed didn’t mention the press conference? Nothing about the Higgs bosun? How strange. What’s it like living in that non-nerdy world of yours? Anyway, the press conference discussed the latest…