Category: Particle Physics For Lay Audienc
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Physics in the Scalar Era
Physics for 500 years deals with forces. Forces or interactions like electromagnetism are represented by vector fields pointing from one point to another. Vectors are described by three coordinates at each point in space and time. Scalar fields are much simpler. They represent just one number per space point. As can be seen from the…
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Beamline for Schools: be a scientist!
Have you already heard about this wonderful CERN project for young students? “Beamline for Schools: be a scientist!” is a project created to entertain children and, above all, make them explore particle physics! Beamline for Schools invites teams of high-school students to propose a scientific experiment that they want to perform at a particle accelerator.…