London: Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs Boson particle, also known as the 'God Particle', has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday. Higgs proposed the existence of the Higgs Boson in 1964, but the particle's existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider almost 50 years later. Edinburgh …
Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Friday dismissed the AAP’s objection to ‘Shivling-shaped’ fountains installed in Delhi, saying they are just art pieces and there is God in “every particle of the country”. Reacting to this, Saxena said, “This is childish behaviour.” The LG along with Union Minister Meenakashi Lekhi unveiled three Yakshini statues at Ulan Batar in the Palam …
Bengaluru: Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is getting ready for its launch soon, ISRO said on Monday. A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses, ISRO noted. Using the special vantage point L1, four payloads will directly view the Sun …
The model we have for understanding the universe's fundamental particles is a bit like a gearbox: one tiny change to any one single particles' properties throws off the mechanics of the other particles, too. Our understanding of the fundamental particles, something known as the Standard Model of particle physics, is one of the most towering human achievements of the past …
