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Big Bucks for Big Bosons: What’s the Point of the LHC?
Doors open at 7.15, and kickoff is at 7.30 View event on Facebook View event on Meetup The Large Hadron Collider – or the LHC for short – is the world’s largest experiment. The LHC is essentially an atom smasher, smashing protons together 40 million times every second. In 2012, the LHC discovered the a new subatomic particle: the Higgs boson, which had been predicted by Edinburgh professor Peter Higgs almost 50 years before. Professor Victoria Martin, one of Peter…
Find out more »Glasgow Skeptics visit Cafe Scientifique: Global Warming in the Trump Era
Please note: The venue is Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street (top floor), and the start time is set for 7pm. See event details on Facebook here So we don't have an official Glasgow Skeptics event on this date ... but our friends over in Cafe Scientifique have got something to tickle your fancy instead. The topic this time: Global Warming in the Trump Era The principles of global warming have been known about since the mid-1800s and scientific evidence gathered since…
Find out more »End of Year Pub Quiz: Science & Skepticism
Sign up via Facebook or Meetup Doors open at 7.15, kickoff at 7.30 British Science Association Glasgow Branch and Glasgow Skeptics invite you to join us and test your levels of general ignorance on all things Science-y and Skepticism-y. This is our last event of 2018, so we'll certainly be taking a look back at the science & skepticism highlights of the year during the quiz. You don't need to have a team in advance ... come join us in…
Find out more »Sportsball-ocks
Sign up via Facebook or Meetup Doors open at 7.15, kickoff at 7.30 As the rewards of fame & fortune increase, so does the dedication and desperation of those in the sporting world who will do whatever it takes to win. Science is playing an ever-increasing role in the march towards maximising our athletic prowess. Unfortunately, wherever science goes, quackery is never far behind. In this talk we will take a light-hearted look at some of the preposterous products and…
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