The Quest for Glueballs

The quantum world is weird. Today we’re looking at a strange particle called a glueball that contains no matter…they’re made of pure force!

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Higgs Boson Discovery! We think?: https://youtu.be/sb8mPtdARMk
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Sources:
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/9706/
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.131601
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http://phys.org/news/2015-10-particle-purely-nuclear.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151013103227.htm
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Closing in on the Elusive Glueball

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram
http://www.whillyard.com/science-pages/holographic.html
http://www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/_cur/store/sup8/pdf/s8p0289.pdf

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CERN_LHC_Tunnel1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleus_drawing.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_tree_trunk.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CERN_Control_Center.jpg