Physicists demonstrate quantum plasmons in atomic-scale nanoparticles

A Revolution in Physics?

Scientist and layman alike were surprised and skeptical when CERN (Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research) announced last September that neutrinos — electrically - neutral particles - had traveled the 730 kilometers from Geneva to Italy’s Gran Sasso 60 nanoseconds faster than light. If proven correct, the implications were enormous. Now we are being told that this ultra-sophisticated experiment may have gone slightly wrong. It looks increasingly likely that Albert Einstein will be proven right after all! Great news coverage on this below.

http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=72165&pageid=28&pagename=Sci-Tech

Perpetual motion ‘time crystals’ may really exist, physicist says:

Remarkable research is out on structures that repeat periodically in the fourth dimension.

The characteristic trait of a time crystal, Wilczek says, is that it moves without consuming or shedding any energy. Instead, it is in a stable, minimum-energy state, just as diamonds and other conventional crystals are. Even so, it is also in a state of perpetual motion.

Physicists find dark matter: It’s everywhere:

Shogo Masaki at Nagoya University and colleagues at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe used computer simulations to model recent observational data of 24 million galaxies. By determining how light from the galaxies was bending slightly as it passed through space en route to Earth — an effect known as gravitational lensing — the researchers were able to work out the location of the dark matter that was bending it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46387769/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.TzukJcrgLog

Happy belated birthday Dr. Stephen Hawking!

Is ‘the new physics’ here? Atom smashers get a big surprise!!! The world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile (27 km) circular particle accelerator underground near Geneva, Switzerland, is designed as a portal to a new view of physics. And it has produced its first peek at the unexpected: bits of matter that don’t mirror the behavior of their antimatter counterparts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45347624/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TsZ2W1Za8dU

The discovery, if confirmed, could rewrite the known laws of particle physics and help explain why our universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter. Here’s a great documentary of the Large Hadron Collider