Particle Decelerator

Slowing down particles of quantum and cosmological data

Monday, 17 March 2014

First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

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Swirls in the CMB polarization, shown here in the BICEP2 data, show the first clear evidence of primordial gravitational waves. Image: BI...

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Inflation

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Today might turn out to be a historic day for the field of cosmology.  At 16:00 UTC at the at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophy...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

There, but invisible

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Swell by Anthony McCall. Commissioned by AV Festival 2006. In physics, the darkness is the most illuminating place to look, if you wa...
Sunday, 15 December 2013

The Beam of Darkness

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This week, engineers from Singapore released details of a fascinating prototype which takes a radically different approach to the creat...
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Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Here, at last ...

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"Here at last ..." With those words the Nobel Committee awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics to Francois Englert (l...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

Kepler conference in need of a new home

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This week a scandal rocked the astronomy community, relating to a exo-planet conference which will discuss results from the Kepler Spac...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

And everything is possible again - SciFoo13

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 The SciFoo 2013 alumini, photographed at Google, June 2013. This year I was fortunate enough to be invited to Science Foo Camp , or ...
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Particle Decelerator collects together particles of news and information about the worlds of science, art and technology, placing a special emphasis on the collision between the quantum and the cosmological. It aims to slows down particles of data in order to grasp them more coherently. Most posts are by Honor Harger. It is part of the Nature Blogging Network: http://blogs.nature.com Email us at: particle.decelerator@gmail.com
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