Aaron McGowan, Rochester Institute of Technology If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” The Standard Model explains the fundamental physics of how the universe … Continue reading 2021: a year physicists asked, ‘What lies beyond the Standard Model?’
Valerio Faraoni, Bishop’s University It took Albert Einstein 10 years to find the equations of general relativity, but German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild only needed a few months to solve them. Schwarzschild’s solution describes the gravity of an isolated, spherical and … Continue reading Our understanding of black holes has changed over time
What new experimental evidence suggests Oscar del Barco Novillo, Universidad de Murcia Since the earliest times, human beings have wanted to explain the most unpredictable and disturbing phenomena in the universe. Although the study of astronomy has been a constant in all civilisations, astronomical events of a more “unpredictable” nature, such as comets or eclipses, were considered an “omen of misfortune” and/or “actions of the gods”. The fall of the Saxon king Harold II in 1066, during the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, was attributed to the bad omen from the passage of a comet (later baptised as “Halley”). And … Continue reading Atomic-sized primordial black holes:
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