How a Real TARDIS Would Work, Explained by Physicists

“Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains in Spacetime” is the name of a scientific paper written by physicists Dr. Ben Tippett and Dr. Dave Tsang. Yes, not only do they study black holes and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but they deliberately named theorized spacetime bubbles TARDIS. We want to be their best friends. Basically, the proposed real life TARDIS is a bubble of spacetime capable of moving backward and forward along a loop of time.

Watch the Moment Peter Higgs Learned His Particle Had Been Found

Nearly five decades ago, Peter Higgs sent physicists on a chase to find a particle that gives the universe its mass. Today, at age 84, he, along with physicist François Englert, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. The video above comes from the day last July when scientists at the European Organizations for Nuclear Research (CERN) made the announcement that they believed they had finally found that particle, the Higgs Boson.

Illustrated Video Explains the Big Bang Theory in 5 Minutes

Science, religion, the Big Bang theory: These are some of the toughest topics to fully grasp -- let alone explain -- in simple terms. Astrophysicists spend their entire careers studying how these concepts connect, but for the rest of us, a general overview is just enough. That's where Minute Physics comes in.

Tiny Diamonds Levitate in Wild Physics Experiment

For the first time, researchers have levitated microscopic diamonds using lasers, expanding physicists' understanding of microscopic particles and potentially providing new tools for quantum computing. In quite an eerie feat, physicists have floated microscopic diamonds in midair using laser beams.

You Would Die If Superman Punched Your Face

If you watched Superman's life unfold on a white board yesterday, you're aware of his wide range of superhuman abilities. One swipe of his right fist is enough to send you into another dimension. But imagine if you were on the other end of that punch. SEE ALSO: The 10 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2012 YouTube sensation Vsauce3 gives a scientific breakdown of how much damage Superman could incur on an average human.

Spinning Black Hole Measured for First Time Ever

Astronomers have made the first reliable measurement of a supermassive black hole's spin, showcasing a technique that could help unravel the mysteries of these monsters' growth and evolution. The enormous black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is spinning about 84% as fast as Einstein's general theory of relativity allows it to, researchers determined.

How the Large Hadron Collider Bends Physics

The largest singular experimental project in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, is so mind-bogglingly complex that even some of its more finite properties are only comprehended by the best physics geeks our planet has to offer. A massive, 17-mile loop underground with multiple screening processes and the contributions more than a hundred nations, it’s also unsurprising that the Large Hadron Collider has made the impossible possible.

Scientists Create Gas Colder Than Absolute Zero

Until recently, the coldest temperature a gas could get to was "absolute zero" on the Kelvin scale -- a beyond-freezing minus 273 degrees Celsius (-460 degrees Farenheit). Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have achieved a temperature colder than absolute zero. Such a discovery could help scientists understand concepts such as dark energy.

Serge Haroche and David Wineland Win Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems." To observe the quantum physics properties of individual particles of light and matter, one needs to isolate them from their surrounding environment, and both scientists have managed to do so without destroying the particles.

Try This Brain Bending Origami Trick [VIDEO]

Did you ever make fortune tellers or create origami animals? If so, you should give your paper folding skills a challenge by making a Hexaflexagon. A hexaflexagon is a geometric figure that can be folded in different ways to create what seems like a logic-defying amount of sides. SEE ALSO: Learn the Surprising Reason Why the Sky Goes Dark at Night [VIDEO] In case you were wondering, the hexaflexagon was invented in 1939 by Princeton graduate student Arthur H.

What Does the Discovery of Higgs Boson Mean? [VIDEO]

Earlier today, CERN's scientists confirmed the existence of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. So what exactly does that mean? The "God particle" is predicted by the Standard Model in modern physics. It is understood to give other particles mass -- including the quarks that make up the protons that make humans and other forms of life. As Mashable's Pete Pachal explained last December, the existence of the Higgs boson essentially completes and affirms the Standard Model of particle physics.


Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, are expected to announce this week they're closer than ever to proving the existence of the Higgs boson "God particle." While scientists at CERN -- also the birthplace of the World Wide Web -- won't claim they've seen the Higgs boson itself, they will report they've collected enough data to say almost conclusively that it does exist.

Angry Birds Space: How the Physics Works

The Angry Birds franchise owes a lot to Isaac Newton. The legendary 17th-century scientist defined the classical laws of gravity, after all, and without them, the game's designers would have had nothing to go on in crafting how things move in its virtual world. Consequently, the game's heroic-yet-furious birds wouldn't be able to exact their high-impact revenge on those smug, green pigs.

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Not So Fast After All

Remember that experiment from last fall that appeared to show neutrinos can travel faster than light? It turns out the whole thing is probably a mistake, brought on by a bad connection between GPS satellites and the computer that calculated the speed of the tiny particles.

From Fantasy to Reality: Scientists Create Time Invisibility Cloak [VIDEO]

You've probably seen fictional cloaks that can make people invisible, but now scientists have created a way to mask whole events in time. A team of researchers at Cornell University have come up with a way to essentially cloak time and space to make a actions appear invisible. It’s an illusion created by light rays. "You kind of create a hole in time where an event takes place," Alexander Gaeta, director of Cornell's School of Applied and Engineering Physics, told the AP.

View Your Life in a Parallel Universe With the Press of a Button

The Quantum Parallelograph is more than just an art design. It's a tool that allows you to get a glimpse of your lives in different parallel universes. You simply tune the search intensity and the device will use online sources to print out a short statement about your alternate realities. Although the results are whimsical, vague and hypothetical, the project is actually based on research in quantum physics by Oxford University professors.

Why the Higgs Boson Announcement Matters

Some of the brightest scientists in the world announced Tuesday that they'd come close to actually discovering a new particle: the Higgs boson. Unfortunately, for a large part of the world, the question of why it's important is far from being answered. In the world of business, even high-tech business, this kind of uncertainty would not stand.

CERN Finds Higgs Boson Evidence, But Not Enough to Be Conclusive

Higgs Boson, the particle that could explain the creation and existence of all mass (or, as we like to call it "stuff"), what some call the "God Particle," has shown itself -- maybe. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN this morning unveiled its preliminary findings from Higgs Boson-related experiments conducted in its Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The collider essentially smashes atoms together at high speeds and then measures the output.

How to Watch the Higgs Boson Announcement Live

Tomorrow the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, will reveal something about the Higgs boson. Back-to-back public seminars are scheduled for 2 p.m. Zurich time (8 a.m. Eastern) on Wednesday, Dec. 13, each from one of the main ongoing experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN's colossal, headline-grabbing atom smasher. And yes, Big Bang Theory fans, you can watch them live.

Scientists May Be Closing in on the Higgs Boson Particle


Large Hadron Collider Achieves 7 TeV Proton Collisions

The title might not sound terribly exciting if you're not a physicist, but this is the main reasons the Large Hadron Collider was built in the first place -- to collide elementary particles at extremely high levels of energy, which would help physicists test some predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson. Two pivotal achievements happened today: First, the LHC finally managed to sustain a 7 TeV particle beam.