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Tom Whyntie was born in 1983. This makes him slightly younger than the W and Z gauge bosons, the force-carrying particles of the weak nuclear force. (Well, technically these have existed in their current form since a microsecond or so after the Big Bang, but it's been thirty odd years since we discovered them.)

After reading Natural Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (specialising in Experimental and Theoretical Physics), Tom accepted a place at Imperial College London to complete a PhD with the High Energy Physics group. He was assigned to the ironically-named "Compact Muon Solenoid" (CMS) experiment, a 15,000 tonne, cathedral-sized digital camera buried in Cessy, France, that would take pictures of the high energy p
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40 Years of Neutral Currents

As the helpfully , it's been a whopping 40 years since the first experimental evidence for neutral currents was published in the journal Physics Letters. As a key clue in the quest to unify two of the fundamental forces of nature -- electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force -- it's no wonder CERN . It could be argued that the magnificent Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 03, 2013 09:04 Tags: cern, history-of-science, particle-physics, physics
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“We may never find a complete Theory of Everything; indeed, philosophers may argue that such a feat is impossible. Let them think that. What I hope I have shown you throughout the course of this book is that particle physics isn’t about the what of our theories – it’s about the how we got there of them. It’s not about the quarks or the leptons, the fermions or the bosons – it’s the fact that we can dream up these ideas and put them to the test in dedicated laboratories that harness our understanding of matter and forces to further our understanding of matter and forces. It’s a task that persistently tries our collective skills and intelligence – that continuously challenges our picture of the world – and yet it’s a task that thousands of people from countries all around the world are still drawn to. It’s a task that unites us through a shared curiosity as to the nature of reality. And that, perhaps, is the most important lesson we can learn from what we have achieved in particle physics so far.”
Tom Whyntie, Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide

“We’ve already noted how physicists love symmetry because, in general, it makes life easier. If the universe obeys a given symmetry, the laws of physics will be the same for everything in it with respect to that symmetry. If a symmetry of the universe is broken, we have to start worrying about physics being different for different things and life gets complicated.”
Tom Whyntie, Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide




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