Speaking experimentally, the past decade has been the "Decade of the Neutrino." It produced neutrino experiments across three continents, going from the lab, to the nuclear reactor, to the atmosphere, to the sun, and back to the nuclear reactor.
This mural in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, located in Minnesota half a mile underground, was designed by artist Joseph Giannetti. Its theme is matter and energy, and--more specifically--neutrino physics.
In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and overthrew the notions of absolute space and time. His later General Theory of Relativity was so revolutionary that even he had trouble accepting its full implications.
As the newly-appointed Director of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), Barry Barish will lead teams of scientists worldwide in the research and development projects advancing the design of the next-generation discovery machine in high-energy physic
A lot of us physics groupies look to quantum physics as the coolest theory. We believe the physicists who say classical ideas don't cut it when you go nuclear.
Neutrinos are like no other particle in the universe. The more we learn about these "little neutral ones," the less we seem to understand them. Physicists do not even yet know what type of particle the neutrino is.
Not only are neutrinos hard to catch, but they also change form as they travel through space. New experiments hope to understand their chameleonic nature.
The question before the high-energy physics community in the United States at this moment is nothing less than whether we will continue to be among the world leaders in this field.
Neutrinos are complicated little beasties--far more so than physicist Wolfgang Pauli could have imagined. He introduced them in 1930 as a theoretical hack to save the law of conservation of energy, which appeared to be violated in some newly observed particle interactions.
Waves describe some of the most extraordinary phenomena in the world. Waves can be simple—the sound of a flute playing a sustained, single note—or they can be complicated mixtures—a musical chord, for example, which is a combination of many sound waves.
On the night of April 27, 2002, the Apache Point 3.5 m telescope in New Mexico captured the light signature of SDSS 1148+5251, the most distant quasar known. A quasar is a compact, ultraluminous object thought to be powered by material falling into a giant black hole.
I noticed a small inaccuracy in the March 2005 article "X-ray Blaze on an Invisible World." Horse people among your readers will instantly recognize that the horse in the photograph "Sallie Gardner" is running, not trotting.
