In the early 1980’s Israeli physicist Mordehai Milgrom from Weizmann Institute proposed a new theory, “the smoking gun” –a new theory of the universe’s structure that offers the most plausible alternative yet to dark matter– that defied the laws of gravity suggesting that galaxies are governed by modified dynamics rather than obeying the laws of Newton and of general relativity. “This theory became known as MOND for modified Newtonian Dynamics, Milgromian Dynamics, or “modified gravity”–a viable explanation for a cosmological dilemma: that galaxies appear to defy the long-accepted rules of gravity traced to Sir Isaac Newton in the late 1600’s. In short, the mathematics of gravity may hint at weirder phenomena than many thought.
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The US-China neutrino hunt that opened a path to discovery Holly Chik Some of the equipment from the Daya Bay site will be moved to Jiangmen where a new detector is being built. Photo: IHEP
Scientists will comb through nearly a decade s worth of data from an award-winning international research project in southern China to analyse an elusive subatomic particle that could be the key to understanding the origins of the universe.
The data came from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in Shenzhen, a collaboration between China and the United States that went on to win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.
Breakthrough Prize Opens Public Nominations For Its 2022 Prizes In Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences & Mathematics Copyright 2021 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved
2020-12-14
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The public nomination period for the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics is now open. Nominations can be submitted online today through April 1, 2021. While self-nominations are prohibited, anyone may nominate another person. The nomination forms and rules are available at breakthroughprize.org.
For the 10th year, the Breakthrough Prize, recognized as the world s largest science prize, will honor top scientists, handing out three prizes in Life Sciences, one in Fundamental Physics and one in Mathematics. In the Life Sciences category, one of the three prizes is designated for work contributing to the understanding of Parkinson s disease or other neurodegenerative disorders. Each prize comes with a $3 million aw