The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion of the universe.

On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...

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April 9 (UPI) --The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs died Monday at his home in Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh in United Kingdom confirmed. Higgs, 94, received the Nobel Prize for ...

The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles. Neutrinos are the byproducts of astronomical events that give us life. They shoot out from the nuclear ...

David Werdegar asks whether the Higgs field is like the luminiferous ether (Letters, 30 July). The answer is no. According to quantum field theory, fields, like the Higgs field and the electromagnetic ...

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...