Smasher

One of my favourite science and engineering facts is that an underground river was frozen to enable the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be built!On its completion, it helped to complete the proverbial jigsaw of the Standard Model with is last piece, the Higgs Boson. But that's about as far as it has got with no other exciting leaps forward in uniting gravity and quantum physics.Plans are now afoot to build a new collider that will be three times longer than the LHC and it will be capable of smashing particles together…

New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons (made of two quarks held together by the exchange of gluons). Credit: Brookhaven National LaboratoryFindings may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations.Given the choice of three different “spin” orientations, certain particles emerging from collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an <span…

Warner Bros. DC Comics fans are eagerly counting down the days before Black Adam debuts on the big screen. Not only will the film feature the first onscreen appearance of the titular anti-hero, but the film will also be the big screen introduction to several members of DCs oldest super-team, The Justice Society of America. But Noah Centineo, who stars as JSA member Atom Smasher, is telling fans not to expect a fully-formed version of the comic book character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcs35Pt2SNU…

via DC Films Now that the character of Atom Smasher from the forthcoming DC film Black Adam is being introduced to mainstream audiences, he’s inevitably being compared to Marvel’s Deadpool — but are such comparisons warranted? When the first full-length trailer for the Dwayne Johnson-starring film dropped Wednesday. it prominently featured many members of the Justice Society of America, including Noah Centineo’s Al Rothstein, AKA Atom Smasher. As part of the promotion for the film, DC announced all-new one-shot…