What happens when #protons collide at almost the speed of light? The #physicist Thomas Becher from #unibern has moved from Bern to the USA – and back again – in search of answers.
He was awarded the Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award for his work: https://www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2026/dancing_with_the_elementary_particles/index_eng.html
Unlike the easily predictable #radiation ☢️ exposures from flying through the Van Allen Belts or basking in the background flux of #galactic 🌌 cosmic rays, the dose an #astronaut gets from #solar ☀️ activity can vary enormously. Predicting #SpaceWeather remains a decidedly inexact 🔮 #science. High-energy #protons and #ions can tear through metal and flesh alike, damaging #DNA and other delicate cellular machinery. Typically, these showers are linked to #CME https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-weather-could-threaten-nasas-artemis-ii-astronauts-during-their-trip/
Space weather could threaten NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their trip to the moon

A major solar storm during the Artemis II mission could harm astronauts. Here’s how NASA is protecting them

Scientific American

I have discovered a new element.

It has 13.4 protons, 8 neutrons, and 13 to 14 elections.

Every time that it gains or loses an electron, the element switches charge, which happens every 45 minutes, unless David Muir is doing the news. Then they remain stable for the duration, so as to not interrupt.

The protons and neutrons are made up of q-arks, which come in 2 flavors: strangers and things.

I call this new element Redicu-lisium.

#science #elements #protons #neutrons #electrons

TIL protons have mass. I didn’t even know they were catholic.

#protons #science

⚛️ How does the biggest #particleaccelerator help to understand the smallest building blocks of #matter?

Ass. Profs. Kristof De Bruyn & Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort use the #LargeHadronCollider @CERN to collide #protons with the aim to discover unexplained phenomena. 💥

Read about the long search for new #physics in our new article 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/the-long-search-for-new-physics

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceinFocus #ScienceNewsroom #particlephysics #gravity #proton #research #science #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

Sour Taste Is the Flavor of Protons

https://tube.blueben.net/w/p3rc5siiqqYRXW4nwKf7sS

Sour Taste Is the Flavor of Protons

PeerTube

Students at #SNOLAB are starting to engage in our common orientation for research experiences. One particle that comes up really early is the #muon. Students often don't learn about subatomic particle properties other than #electrons, #protons, and #neutrons until late in university. I made this video explicitly to help early-career students get familiar with the muon and see how it was the first direct test of the #relativity of time:

https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/fcZ9GLoMy4V3NdGSv2iW8h

#physics

Modern Physics, Lecture 4: The Muon as a Test of Special Relativity

PeerTube

Taiyoken

Para criar explosões de luz no espaço, utilizando um acelerador de partículas e o fenômeno de captura eletrônica para gerar neutrinos. Esses neutrinos, ao interagirem com xenônio líquido, produziriam luz intensa para comunicação, navegação, defesa planetária e iluminação. O autor também faz uma analogia entre os ciclos de extinção na Terra e eventos cósmicos como o Big Bang, Big Crunch e Big Bounce, sugerindo que a...

#neutrino #prótons #radiação #universo

https://eternidade1.blogspot.com/2024/09/taiyoken.html

14,000 Years Ago, The Most Powerful Solar Storm Ever Recorded Hit Earth - This Event Establishes A New Worst-Case Scenario
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https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/14-000-years-ago-the-most-powerful-solar-storm-ever-recorded-hit-earth-this-event-establishes-a-new-worst-case-scenario <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119383 <-- shared paper
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“A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its surrounding space today..."
#spaceweather #prehistoric #extremesolarparticleevents #CCMSOCOL #14CEx #Radiocarbon #GlacialEpoch #solarstorm #infrastructure #risk #hazard #radiocarbon #IceAge #model #modeling #glacial #climate #geomagnetism #magnetic #protons #carbon14 #Quaternary #geology #treerings

Lightning-Fast Alchemy: CERN Just Turned Lead Into Gold – Then Watched It Vanish

An experiment has measured gold formation from lead nuclei during near-miss collisions in the Large Hadron Collider.

These high-speed interactions trigger electromagnetic processes that occasionally eject three protons, yielding gold atoms. Billions are made, but only for a split second.

#gold #lead #alchemy #protons #LargeHadronCollider

https://scitechdaily.com/lightning-fast-alchemy-cern-just-turned-lead-into-gold-then-watched-it-vanish/