SLAC Colloquium - Why Look for the Higgs?In the next year, the Large Hadron Collider promises to say something definitive about the existence of the Higgs boson. In this talk, Professor Tim Tait will review why the Standard Model of particles physics requires a Higgs boson to give masses to all of the other fundamental particles, how ...
Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative SessionsBAASICS.2: The FutureWhat comes to mind when you ponder "the future"? Do you imagine a day when flying cars will be commonplace, androids will perform household chores, and humanity will populate other planets? Or do you fret over imminent environmental catastrophe, the rise ...