physics

Physics: Scientists capture the highest EVER resolution images of atoms

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Researchers have broken the record for the highest resolution image ever captured of individual atoms, creating a shot that is ‘zoomed in’ some 100 million times. These images are so fine-tuned, in fact, that the blurring remaining in the shot is the product solely of the thermal jiggling of the atoms themselves. The breakthrough by … Read more

Changes to the Standard Model of physics could point to a ‘God Equation’

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Q: What first sparked your interest in the idea of a ‘God Theory’? Why that name over Universal Theory? I first got interested in the God Equation when I was 8 years old. All the newspapers said that a great scientist had just died. They published a picture of his desk, with an unfinished book. … Read more

Result from CERN challenges the leading theory in physics

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Scientists have announced ‘intriguing’ results today that potentially cannot be explained by the current laws of nature. CERN, which operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world near Geneva in Switzerland, has detected ‘gaps in our understanding of the universe’. From Large Hadron Collider data, CERN has found particles not behaving how they should according to … Read more

Physics: LHC detects the elusive ‘odderon’ quasiparticle some 50 YEARS after it was first predicted

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Concluding a hunt that began almost 50 years ago, particle physicists from CERN and the US have detected an elusive and weird phenomenon called the ‘odderon’. It was formed by firing protons at each other at high energies in the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile-long particle accelerator circling under the French-Swiss border. This effort built on … Read more

Julia Roberts got Matthew Perry to write her a paper on physics in exchange for appearing on Friends

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Julia Roberts got Matthew Perry to write her a paper on quantum physics in exchange for appearing on Friends in 1996… which led to the pair dating By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 05:39 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 05:39 GMT, 30 January 2021 They had electric onscreen chemistry, and went on to date … Read more

Scientist blasts BBC after presenter said physics teachers were ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’

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Fury at BBC home-schooling programme that tells pupils physics teachers are ‘grumpy, scary and smell of cabbage’ Actor & radio host Cel Spellman said physics teachers were ‘grumpy’ and ‘scary’ Dr Adam Rutherford criticised presenter for ‘ridiculous’ remarks on BBC Bitesize Spellman’s comments have also come under fire by people on social media  By Lydia … Read more

Three scientists share Nobel physics prize for cosmology finds

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British scientist Roger Penrose among three winners of Nobel physics prize for cosmology for their discoveries related to black holes Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez share the Nobel for physics Professor Penrose, from the University of Oxford, won it for work on black holes  Professors Ghez and Genzel shared it for their collaboration … Read more

Physics: controversial theory argues that the entire universe is a neural network 

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The universe could be a neural network — an interconnected computational system similar in structure to the human brain — a controversial theory has proposed. As created by computer scientists, artificial neural networks are made up of various nodes — equivalent to biological neurons — that process and pass on signals. The network can change as … Read more

Experts become LESS influential after winning Nobel prize – especially in physics and medicine

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The Nobel curse is REAL: Experts become LESS influential after winning world’s top science prize – especially in physics and medicine, study confirms Work of Nobel Prize winners published after win is less influential, study says Impact of work they produced in year after win falls by an average 11 per cent Based on the … Read more