Physics


RAPID REACTION: Higgs boson evidence announcement – experts respond

Wed Dec 14, 2011

Scientists made an announcement regarding evidence for the “Higgs boson” at CERN in Switzerland in the early hours of December 14, Australian time.

RAPID ROUNDUP: World’s biggest experiment to recreate big bang – experts react

Tue Sep 9, 2008

The world’s biggest and most expensive scientific experiment – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets underway at CERN in Geneva on September 10. Scientists hope that by smashing particles together at near the speed of light, the LHC will provide critical insight into origins of the universe including the mysterious ‘dark matter’ that occupies much [...]

RAPID ROUNDUP: Australian Physicists respond to the announcement of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics

Wed Oct 4, 2006

The Nobel Prize for Physics, 2006 has gone to John C Mather and George F Smoot for their discovery of the blackbody form and fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiation.