Jan 19

A Story of the Universe

Follow me through space and time.

Image of the Mountains of Creation from the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope — The Mountains of Creation. Image from the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian).

The Universe is born 13.8 billion years ago in a Big Bang. After the first spark, a sequence of opportune events brought us here: a small creature on a peculiar planet, sailing a vast ocean of stars, wondering about the mysteries of the cosmos.

The known is finite, the unknown…

Is Larger Better in Particle Physics?

How particle accelerators retrace the course of time.

Photographer: Maximilien Brice, CERN, (License: CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Since the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity at the turn of the 20th century, the beams of particles opened us new horizons that our eyes couldn’t contemplate before. From the first radiograph in 1895 to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, many breakthroughs in modern physics are tightly…

Joël Repond

I’m thrilled to share my knowledge, ideas and findings with you. Oh, and I also hold a Ph. D. in Physics.

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