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CERN

International organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory

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Jan 30, 2026
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Do tachyons exist

are hypothetical faster‑than‑light particles that remain unobserved: no experiment has produced verifiable evidence for them, and mainstream physics treats them as highly problematic because of and st...

Dec 17, 2025
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Everything about the Illuminati Dan Brown wrote in his books

Dan Brown’s portrayal of the Illuminati is a fictionalized, central plot device in Angels & Demons (published as Illuminati in some editions): an “ancient secret group of scientists” said to have been...

Nov 28, 2025
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Why did ProtonVPN base operations in Switzerland?

ProtonVPN based its operations in Switzerland to take advantage of Swiss privacy laws, claiming protection from EU and US surveillance regimes and linking its roots to Proton Mail and CERN founders in...

Jan 13, 2026

who invented the quark

Murray Gell‑Mann and George Zweig independently proposed the constituent‑particle model now called quarks in 1964, with Gell‑Mann coining the name "quark" and Zweig proposing a similar scheme he calle...

Dec 20, 2025

Does a meson that's made of a charm-antistrange quark pair exist? If so, what's it called?

Yes — a meson composed of a charm quark and an antistrange quark exists and is conventionally called the D_s (D-sub-s) meson, with the positively charged ground state usually written D_s^+ and its ant...

Nov 10, 2025

The sky is blue due to cerrillian particles

The claim that “the sky is blue due to cerrillian particles” is unsupported by mainstream atmospheric science and particle physics: the blue color of the daytime sky is explained by of sunlight by air...