Bobby Acharya

A physicist. Currently searching for answers with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Higgs bosons, string theory, M theory, G2-manifolds and acid jazz.

[CERNpress @CERNpress]

[Press Update] The European Strategy for Particle Physics reaches an important milestone

Find out more: https://t.co/vC4lVtiD3T

[CERNpress @CERNpress]

[Press Update] Private donors pledge 860 million euros for CERN’s Future Circular Collider

Find out more: https://t.co/X56XUnx4x5

[Kate Shaw @KateShawOnline]

Calling scientists with PhD positions or internships!! Please join us on the 10 September for the Afghan Physics Students Conference to witness the presentations of Afghan MSc students studying abroad, who have worked tirelessly despite difficulties!
https://t.co/EsZ5NZJZLs

[Kate Shaw @KateShawOnline]

We LOVE this #DUNEUK poster of a DUNE Anode plane Assembly (APA) under construction on an
automated wire winding machine at STFC @DaresburyLab
DUNE is a next-generation neutrino experiment, and our UK scientists are at the @royalsociety this week showcasing the physics!!

[CERN @CERN]

#OnThisDay twelve years ago, two experiments at CERN announced the existence of a particle with characteristics consistent with those of the #HiggsBoson.

Named after the late theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, its discovery crowned the #StandardModel of particle physics. In 2013, the @NobelPrize for Physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their 1964 proposal of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism.

To mark 60 years since Peter Higgs published his now famous paper predicting the existence of the boson named after him, here we see 60 event displays from @ATLASexperiment and @CMSExperiment, showing collisions where a Higgs boson is produced and then decays into various particles.

#FunFact: in the audio, you can hear Peter Higgs speak about the discovery in his own words.

Find out more about the #Higgsboson https://t.co/1aC5mOpmQh

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The Dirac delta function, denoted as δ(x), is a mathematical concept that is widely used in physics and engineering, particularly in the fields of signal processing, quantum mechanics, and electrodynamics. It is not a function in the traditional sense but rather a distribution or a generalized function.

The Dirac delta function is defined to be zero everywhere except at x=0, where it is infinitely high in such a way that its total integral over the entire real line is equal to one. This unique property makes it an ideal representation of an idealized point mass or point charge in physical models, and it is often used to model impulses or singular events in time or space.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In case you have ever wondered, this is what a total solar eclipse look like from an airplane

[📹 Sylvain Chapeland, timelapse]
[📍 Flight 870 Anchorage to Honolulu, 2016]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our Universe, but in a mangled form, which contains information about what you were like, but in an unrecognisable state. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes. But it is difficult to read»

— Stephen Hawking, Information Loss in Black Holes, 2005

[CERN @CERN]

#LifeAtCERN wouldn’t exist without books 📚

As the back-to-school season makes its comeback worldwide, the CERN community enjoys its newly revamped library, filled with a valuable collection of books, scientific articles and publications, in topics ranging from particle physics to astrophysics and beyond.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the mountainous parts of the northern Peninsula of Malaysia, in an an area of about 100 km in radius,

there are snails, amongst the rarest in the world, called Platymma tweediei

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Welcome back, Voyager 2.

@NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! https://t.co/bJDKh6Icg5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms
― Zen Shin

Hitachi Seaside Park on the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture includes around 4.2 hectares of nemophila (baby blue eyes)

[read more: https://t.co/EGk88Fk1Xt]
[📹 YanGang]

[ICTP PWF @ictpPWF]

Apply now for a Physics Without Frontiers project to train the next generation of scientists from developing countries! https://t.co/hO9LYbZSPO
We are especially interested to hear from physicists from the LDCs and for project to support women and girls in physics!

[ICTP PWF @ictpPWF]

Wonderful students during the Physics Without Frontiers Science Camp for Girls in Nepal, getting a brilliant @atlasexperiment virtual visit around the ATLAS detector by the wonderful @stevengoldfarb asking:
'What is the good of doing fundamental research??' - any answers?

[ICTP PWF @ictpPWF]

APPLY today to Physics Without Frontiers help build the next generation of scientists!
https://t.co/eL1WsaP80q
The Open Call is an expression of interest, just let us know who you are and what you want to do and we will work with selected projects to develop a full proposal!

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

The eye of God, Amazing to say the least. 🌌 The Helix Nebula

[ICTP PWF @ictpPWF]

Register TODAY for the Celebration of 10 Years of Physics Without Frontiers! 1pm CET 22 November take part in the discussions and learn what young scientists are doing the world over to support each other in science.
https://t.co/pqCozUJ9B1
#PWFat10 #IYBSSD #WorldScienceDay2022

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

This is a superb visualization of European history (1500-2022).
https://t.co/e87t1bKxYC

[Thomas Lin @7homaslin]

Mathematicians have known how to solve the single bubble problem for more than a century and the double bubble problem for about two decades. Now they finally have solutions for clusters of 3, 4 and 5 bubbles. @EricaKlarreich reports in @QuantaMagazine: https://t.co/u5M3jraCZv

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

The art of playing pool by using physics and geometry https://t.co/OHXwHVGIeQ