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Physicists Take Part in Discovery of New Subatomic Particle

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Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will?

An anonymous reader sends in a Science News article that begins: "Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably" Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics, of course, embrace unpredictability. But many physicists aren't comfortable with that, and are working to develop deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. Conway and Kochen's proof argues that these efforts will be fruitless — unless one is willing to give up human free will, in a very strong sense.

The Particle Zoo: Collecting Your Own Subatomic Particles

This is a must for any particle physics enthusiast: collect your own particles in the form of a soft, cuddly plushie. From the theoretical Higgs boson to the well known electron, all the quantum particles from the Standard Model can be browsed and chosen for your personal collection. The Particle Zoo is the brain child of Los Angeles-based Julie Peasley, who is making it her duty to give our beloved particles a face and personality. For example: due to his popularity, the Higgs particle is a "bit of a snob" and therefore has a huge smile on his face (after all, wouldn't you be really smug if everyone wanted to interview you?); the muon (or heavy electron) "lives fast and dies young"; or, hilariously, the unobserved graviton "has big legs for jumping branes.

Scientists explore what happened before the universe's theoretical beginning

When the huge subatomic-particle smasher under the Swiss-French border starts running, it's supposed to reveal what happened the instant after the big bang, the theoretical beginning of our universe 13.7 billion years ago.

2 Japanese, 1 American share Nobel physics prize

Two Japanese and an American have won the 2008 Nobel Prize for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the

Dark Matter, New Planets Could Bring Physics Nobel

Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

CERN unveils computer grid linking 7,000 scientists

Scientists walk in the CERN LHC computing grid centre in Geneva. This centre is one of the 140 data processing centres, located in 33 countries, taking part in the grid processing project. More than 15mn gigabytes of data produced from the hundreds of millions of subatomic collisions in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) should be collected every year

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