The first particle physicists detected their subatomic subjects, including cosmic rays, using devices called cloud chambers.
Sceptics may wonder why private companies would ever want to share computing resources co-operatively, as particle physicists are doing.
Particle physicists are also using computing grids provided by NorduGrid, a Scandinavian initiative, and Grid3, a consortium based in America.
In a bid to restore yet more symmetry to the universe, a number of particle physicists are developing a theory called supersymmetry.
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Particle physicists would not have the first idea of what was going on in their machines if the results of their experiments were not processed automatically.
Other experiments had seen some evidence of the D-meson's flipping, but this is the first that crosses the "five sigma" level of statistical significance that particle physicists use to denote an official discovery.
"There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Taking a fee for every trade fired at an exchange would remove some of the haze that surrounds our market structures that have grown so esoteric that big trading firms must woo particle and quantum physicists to its fold.
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Physicists have their particle accelerators and biologists their cultured cells.
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CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, physicists are now campaigning for its successor.
Although physicists expected to find the particle someday, the actual detection is a highly significant discovery and completes an important stage in our understanding of what everything around is made.
Many physicists hate the term "God particle" because it did not originate in the way you might think.
Physicists in Geneva are close to discovering the last particle they need to complete the model, the Higgs boson.
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In 2010, physicists at Fermilab said they were closing in on the elusive particle.
So physicists are eagerly seeking more, and two groups working at Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago, think they have found a candidate.
Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.
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