Higgs boson
Rob Sheldon on why some are upset that the Higgs boson “refuses to misbehave”
Rob Sheldon on recent claims of dramatic new Higgs boson findings
Sometimes physicists really have to work at ignoring fine-tuning
Sabine Hossenfelder on the future of particle physics
What does it mean to say, in physics, that something like the Higgs boson “exists”?
Particle physicist: Please quit calling the Higgs boson “the God particle”!
Cosmologist: String theory is incompatible with dark energy
Rob Sheldon mentioned a story going the rounds earlier today, about whether dark energy was “even allowed.” Here’s the story, from ScienceDaily: In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June, a team of string theorists from Harvard and Caltech published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fundamentally incompatible with our current understanding of “dark energy” — but only with “dark energy” can we explain the accelerated expansion of our current universe. Timm Wrase of the Vienna University of Technology quickly realized something odd about this conjecture: it seemed to be incompatible with the existence of the Higgs particle. His calculations, which he carried out together with theorists from Columbia University in New Read More ›