God's own glue

An article in National Geographic about the search that's to begin at LHC for the particle responsible for gravity - a.k.a God particle, god's own glue, etc. Lickable pictures - a NatGeo speciality - to gawk at.

In Our Time podcast on Parallel Universes. I am posting this with my legs in one, head in another and arms in your Universe. Please don't stare, you are collapsing my multiversal wavefunction.

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