Symmetry in Microparticle Physics
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Collegues,
Being a researcher is to be creative. Often, one talks about cross-disciplinarity and it is a very important tool to generate novel ideas and scientific discovery, by foresight and hard work or even by chance. However, creativity is so much more.
Collaborating scientists, agreeing and more importantly disagreeing have resulted in important discoveries of the fundamental properties of nature, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson. Having contradictory measurements from Dark Matter searches could prove to be the key to a better or new understanding of this phenomenon. Being persistent and trying again and again could result in a break-through in anti-matter research changing the nature of the experiments. Testing the obvious, questioning the established, and searching for what we expect to be right but have not tested, could be the key to more profound understanding of natural phenomena.
Painting a picture, composing music or expressing emotions through dance has a lot in common with doing research. It is a lot of hard work, a never-ending learning process and an infinite well of mistakes. All with the hope of that a tiny flash of genius will occur which may result in a moment of truth. Often science moves in many small incremental steps before taking a new turn or a big step forward. Can we use our creativity in new ways to fast forward scientific discovery and new understanding about nature?
Prof. Heidi Sandaker
Guest Editor
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