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Fermilab researchers have spotted a wobble in the movement of a tiny particle
This and abnormalities seen by CERN suggest issues with the Standard Model
Leading physicist Michio Kaku says abnormalities have been long expected
Any tiny change could leave open the door to finding a new universal theory
A goal of Einstein during his lifetime, it would unite all four forces of nature into a simple, single inch long theory that Kaku dubbed the God Equation
Welcome to the party, Baylor
Published: April 6, 2021
Baylor became the 37th team in college basketball history to win the NCAA Tournament last night, joining an exclusive fraternity that includes the 1943 Wyoming Cowboys./ UW courtesy photo
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The Bears dominated Gonzaga 86-70 Monday night in the National Championship game in Indianapolis, becoming just the second school from Texas to hoist the NCAA title trophy at season s end.
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This tournament also known as March Madness has been around since 1939. In that 82-year span, just 37 teams have cut down the nets. That s pretty remarkable if you consider there are 340 Division-I basketball teams these days.
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As a chess team captain at the University of Chicago in 1968, Harold Winston won a decisive match that clinched the national and Pan-American championship.
Among his college chess rivals was George R.R. Martin, the future “Game of Thrones” author who wrote of a certain archrival in his short story “Unsound Variations.”
Martin “put him in a story as ‘Hal Winslow,’ ” said Mr. Winston’s wife, Dr. Carol Weinberg.
Winslow was the rumpled, clipboard-carrying U. of C. chess team captain in “Unsound Variations” who also shares Mr. Winston’s initials
“It was never easy between U. of C. and Northwestern,” a character in the Martin story says. “All through my college years, we were the two big Midwestern chess powers, and we were archrivals. The Chicago captain, Hal Winslow, became a good friend of mine, but I gave him a lot of headaches.”
Before he died, Einstein was working on a theory of everything. It aims to combine all the forces in the universe into one beautiful, mathematical equation to explain everything.
That equation remains incomplete, but physicists like Michio Kaku are charging ahead using new scientific observations from gravitational wave detectors and particle accelerators.
Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York and the author of a new book
He joins us to talk about the work by modern-day physicists to solve the equation, the controversy surrounding the core of the problem’s solution and how understanding this equation can help answer big questions of the universe, like what happened before the big bang.