Research
Experimental Elementary Particle Physics (or High Energy Physics)
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"Professor Sunil Somalwar smashes very high energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The protons and antiprotons he studies collide head on while travelling at about 99.99995% of the speed of light. These collisions create conditions that existed in our universe soon after the Big Bang and help us answer fundamental questions such as how the universe came about, what it is made of, why things attract or repel each other and where all the antimatter has gone. Professor Somalwar is also very concerned about how we humans are smashing the natural world, which is partly why he teaches classes on energy and global warming. He also runs a nonprofit (savingwildtigers.org) to save the world's remaining few wild tigers and is a volunteer activist with New Jersey's Sierra Club." |
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