Decay: The Zombie Movie Made By Physics Students & Filmed At The Large Hadron Collider

Decay is a full-length movie created by University of Manchester physics Ph.D. student Luke Thompson. It is his first attempt at filmmaking and it was shot on location at CERN, near the Large Hadron Collider. Other students and at least one professor make up the cast and crew of the movie.

Decay injects zombies into the search for the Higgs Boson – which scientists at CERN believed they finally discovered last year. For several years, the Large Hadron Collider has been the source of wild conspiracy theories and speculation. Many believed that it could be used to create a black hole that will inadvertently destroy the earth or be the source of many other types of dangerous and unpredictable science. This is what makes Thompson’s movie particularly interesting – as he capitalizes on this speculation to create his fictional movie. Continue Reading

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Sonnet on a Higgs-Like Particle

This is a charm video by Youtuber Vihart about yesterday’s big discovery by CERN.

Just in case you still haven’t a glue what a Higgs Boson is by now.

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Hello Democracy, Goodbye ACTA

Goodbye ACTA Hello Democracy, Goodbye ACTA

Here’s an image that is destined to be truly iconic. ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been overwhelmingly rejected by the European Parliament, by 478 votes to 39 (165 abstained). Members of the European Parliament vote down ACTA in dramatic fashion, hefting signs that read HELLO DEMOCRACY, GOODBYE ACTA. It now seems unlikely to come into force anywhere in the world.

This Tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson sums up today best:

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CERN Scientists Are 99.99% Sure About Discovery Of ‘God Particle’

Higgs boson CERN Scientists Are 99.99% Sure About Discovery Of ‘God Particle’

The Higgs Boson was first theorised in the 1960s by Edinburgh-based physicist Peter Higgs

CERN scientists have announced today that they are 99.99% sure that they have discovered a new sub-atomic particle that they believe to be the elusive Higgs Boson – that is regularly referred to as the ‘God Particle.’ Scientists gathered together in Geneva today to announce their findings, among those in the audience was Edinburgh professor Peter Higgs who first theorized about the existence of this seemingly indefinable particle nearly half a century ago!

This discovery has caused a great deal of excitement amongst the scientific community as the existence of this particle will help physicists understand a great deal more about the way in which our universe is constructed. Continue Reading

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