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Linear Higgs, 4 Quark Mystery, Naked Mole Rats Fight Cancer, Time For Mars?, Interview With Brian Switek, Author And Dinosaur Expert, And Much More…
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What’s got 4 quarks and wasn’t expected to exist?
No show is complete without a few naked mole rats…
this time, they fight cancer.
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Brian Switek is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology, and natural history. His blog Laelaps is part of the Phenomena “science salon” at National Geographic.
Brian’s new book – My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs – has just been published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His critically acclaimed debut – Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature – is available through Bellevue Literary Press and Icon Books.
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20:50 We didn’t really need to spend the money on CERN, we could have just waited a couple decades?
Ridiculous! You can’t generate TeV scale collisions with this, or any tabletop accelerator. This article is talking about GeV scale collisions, ancient news in high energy physics. That’s a 1,000 times too weak to probe the Higgs.
Also, this is a laser plasma accelerator. This technique can be made small, but produces unavoidably messy collisions, and could never be used to probe Higgs interactions.