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Scientists at the world’s largest physics experiment have reported the most precise measurement yet of the most massive subatomic particle we know. The finding sounds esoteric but it wouldn’t be an understatement to say it has implications for the whole universe. The Greek philosopher Empedocles surmised 2,400 years ago that matter could be broken up…
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Peter Higgs poses in front of an image of a detector of the Large Hadron Collider, November 12, 2013, in London. | Photo Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters The day the physicist Peter Higgs passed away, April 8, Google search results were rife with headlines that the man who proposed the “God particle” was no more. Dr…
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Say you have a friend who asserts that they can smell water. You are sceptical, yet also curious. To test their claim, you fill up 50 cups out of 100 with water and instruct your blindfolded friend to sniff away. If your scepticism – the null hypothesis – is justified, the odds of your friend…
