Particle Science "God Particle" Possibly Discovered - http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/higgs.html A report on one of the potentially most important discoveries of the new millennium, along with a summary of the standard model of particle physics. ABC's of Nuclear Science - http://www.lbl.gov/abc/ A comprehensive introduction to nuclear science-- antimatter, beta rays, cosmic radiation, radioactivity, the difference between fission and fusion, and the structure of the nucleus, for starters. Site also provides access to reference and teaching materials and experiments. From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Uses frames. Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe - http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/ A thorough discussion covering all aspects of antimatter. ATLAS Educational Information - http://atlasexperiment.org/ The ATLAS Experiment is to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator facility of the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Website is intended for people of all ages who are curious about fundamental particles and forces as well as about particle research. Atom Builder - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/ A shockwave application that allows the user to add up and down quarks to a hydrogen nucleus to create a carbon nucleus. Big Bang Science - http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/part1.html Site seeks to explain the origins of matter and current high-energy research regarding the conditions of the early universe. The information presented here is published in booklet form by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). Bremsstrahlung - http://rd11.web.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/PH14pp/node16.html An overview of bremsstrahlung (or stopping radiation). From The Particle Detector BriefBook. Cherenkov Radiation - http://rd11.web.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/PH14pp/node26.html From The Particle Detector BriefBook. CHESS X-ray Visions - http://www.chess.cornell.edu/pubs/xrybrchr/ Celebration of 100 years since the discovery of X-rays. Elaborates on uses of x-rays and details the research conducted with the CHESS synchrotron located below the Cornell campus. Classical & Statistical Thermodynamics & Mechanics Educational Sites - http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamics.Educational.Sites_html A collection of resources gathered by the Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Contemporary (Nuclear) Physics Education Project (CPEP) - http://www.cpepweb.org/ A product of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. Charts, brochures, web features, and classroom activities present the current understanding of cosmic rays, radiation, particle physics, fission, fusion, and similar topics. Award-winning site. Cross Section - http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/crosssection.html Introduction to cross section, an important concept in scattering. Decays - http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/decays.html Introductory information on particle decays produced by the Stanford Linear Accelerator. FAQ about Fusion Research - http://FusEdWeb.pppl.gov/FAQ/fusion-faq.html The FAQ (from Princeton Plasma Physics Lab) is not very extensive, but it has an impressive Glossary. Fermilab Education - http://www-ed.fnal.gov/ For students, educators, visitors. Fermilabyrinth - http://www-ed.fnal.gov/projects/labyrinth/ A collection of Web-based games and activities to develop an understanding of the operations and experiments that take place in the Fermilab accelerator and detector halls and the scientific ideas they explore. Has a special section for teachers. FusEdWeb - http://FusEdWeb.llnl.gov/ Fusion Energy Educational Web Site at LLNL Fusion Energy Education - http://FusEdWeb.pppl.gov/ Leads to several excellent resources which teach about fusion. Fusion FAQ Glossary - http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/Glossary/glossary.html USENET FAQ glossary on fusion energy. Fusion: Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source: - http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/Chart.html An introduction to the principles of fusion geared towards high school students. Posters in various languages also available for download or ordering. GCSE Physics: Radioactivity - http://www.gcse.com/radio/rad.htm Simple, concise introductory tutorials about radioactivity and atoms. General Atomics Fusion Group Educational Home Page - http://fusioned.gat.com/ resources for teachers and students; links to a more technical GAT fusion site History of the Nuclear Age - http://www.nuclearfiles.org/history.html A chronological record of the nuclear age: links to people, documents and educational units. Explore political and ethical dilemmas of the Nuclear Age. How Stuff Works: How Atom Smashers Work - http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher.htm Tutorial with 28 color illustrations and photographs looks at these amazing devices and how the results they obtain tell us about the fundamental structure of matter, the forces holding it together and the origins of the universe. Introduction to High Energy Physics and ATLAS - http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/hepathu.html Describes the work of the Hampton University Particle Physics group in the ATLAS project as well as material and links for particle physics and general physics education. Introduction to Particle Physics - http://blueflag.phys.yorku.ca/yhep/main.html Beginners guide to particle physics. Learning Science with Computer Assistance: Physics Topics - http://www.alphalink.com.au/~vmck/ A set of simulations to illustrate the historical models of atomic structure and the behavior of light. Leptons - http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/leptons.html Introductory information on leptons (electrons, muons, taus, and neutrinos). Life, the Universe and the Electron - http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/electron/ An exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron--A collaboration between the Science Museum, London, and the Institute of Physics Meltdown at Three Mile Island, a Documentary - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/ Companion site to the PBS show of the same name. Covers "How a Nuclear Reactor Works" and "What Happened," showing the series of events that took place on March 28, 1979. Useful for a quick lesson about Three Mile Island. Also has teacher's guide to the show and a link for ordering the video. Requires Java-enabled browser. Nuclear Power - http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Snuclear.htm Overviews the principles of nuclear fission and its use to generate power, why uranium can be fissioned, n/p ratio and delayed neutrons, moderators, also Chernobyl and 3-Mile Island. Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration - http://www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html Java applet of a basic nuclear power plant. Try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios. Nuclear Science and Technology and How It Influences Your Life - http://www.aboutnuclear.org/ Covers five major application fields: food irradiation, industry, medicine, space, and electricity. Nuclear War and You - http://www.holidaywest.com/nuclearwarhead.htm The effects of a nuclear blast. OnScreen Particle Physics - http://www.onscreen-sci.com/ A simulation for Mac and Windows 95/98/NT that allows even beginning students to experience what real particle physics experiments are like. Demo versions available for download. Perspective on Plasmas - http://www.plasmas.org Educational information on plasma applications including controlled fusion. Reflections on Matter - http://molaire1.club.fr/e_plan.html Atoms to quarks, quantum physics, the big bang, and newer theories about matter. SLAC Visitor Center - http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/ Information provided by SLAC for informing the general public about particle physics. Tau Decay Physics - http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLEO/CLEO3/cleo3/proposal/subsection3_3_3.html Summary of decay modes and their probabilities. The Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience (IPPEX) - http://ippex.pppl.gov/ The site "allows students and teachers to participate remotely in scientific research at [America's] largest fusion energy laboratory." Requires Java-capable browser and Shockwave plug-in to be able to use the excellent educational modules. Also has an "ask the expert" forum for fusion-related questions. The Particle Adventure - http://particleadventure.org An award-winning site from the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. "A tour of the inner workings of the atom." The Science of Particle Physics - http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/physics/ Overview of elementary particle physics experiments and research at Fermilab. U.S. Fusion Energy Sciences Program - http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/ A very comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy site related to fusion research. Provides a large number of links to institutions and organizations, and there is a special fusion education section too. Virtual Radioactivity Lab - http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919/halflife.html Explore radioactive decay and half-life with radioactive sources, screens and a geiger detector. What is Antimatter? - http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000848AB-9450-1CD1-B4A8809EC588EEDF&catID=3 From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics. What is the Higgs Boson? - http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=00043456-7089-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7 From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.

A Brief History of Time - http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/abhotswh.html quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book. Astronomy Today - Cosmology - http://www.astronomytoday.com/cosmology.html Articles on related topics in popular magazine style. Cambridge Cosmology Homepage - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cos_home.html A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university COBE - http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/ The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Instruments, scientific results, related links. Conversational Cosmology - http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~siopis/papers/Book.ps.gz by Henry E. Kandrup. A college-level textbook for an introductory course in cosmology for nonscientists. Comes in a zipped postscript file. Cosmology - http://www.phsx.ku.edu/Cosmology/KUCosmo.html A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel. Cosmology - http://www.galacticsurf.com/cosmolGB.htm A collection of links. Cosmology - http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect20/Preface.html An extensive overview. Part of the NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial. Cosmology - http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/intro/cosmo-frame.html Companion site to the PBS mini-series, discussing the challenge to traditional Christian views posed by the scientific understanding of cosmological evolution, and ways in which they might be reconciled. Cosmology Books and Links - http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologyBooksAndLinks.html Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University. Cosmology made Simple - http://www.geocities.com/autotheist/Physics/cosmo.htm A brief, non-mathematical introduction to modern cosmology. Cosmology: A Research Briefing - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/cosmology/ An online book from the National Academy of Sciences. Includes chapters on CMBR, the large scale structure of universe, and the physics of the early universe. CosmoNet - http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=27930&url=27930/ An "interactive book" focusing on the topics of astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics. It also provides a number of services including an index of all 88 constellations, several interactive games and quizzes, and extensive information on stars, galaxies, and the Big Bang. Distant Galaxies and Cosmology Models - http://www.cosmologymodels.com/ Article on possible cosmological models. Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium - http://galileo.as.utexas.edu/research.html This site is dedicated to summarizing the research of Paul Shapiro's cosmology group. Of interest mainly to specialists. Good Cosmology Sites - http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_sites.html Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor. Great Debates in Astronomy - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html Following in the footsteps of the famous April 1920 'Great Debate' between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, this series of debates among leaders in the astronomical community highlight major quests in astronomy and astrophysics in an open forum at the turn of the millennium. Introduction to Cosmology - http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html A NASA site for the general public featuring a collection of questions and answers on cosmology. Introduction to Cosmology - http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022 These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assumed, but otherwise no special knowledge is needed. Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background - http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html Basic explanations of key concepts, including the Big Bang, expansion of the universe, and the ripples in the density of the early universe that led to the galaxies and stars we see today. LAMBDA - Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data - http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) archive of science research. CMB data is an important aspect of reseach in cosmology. MACHO Project - http://wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca/ Primary aim is to test the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way is made up of objects like brown dwarfs or planets: these objects have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects. MAP Home Page - http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MAP is a MIDEX class mission, selected by NASA in 1996, to probe conditions in the early universe. MAP measures temperature differences ("anisotropy") in the cosmic microwave background radiation. Max Tegmark - http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/ Cosmologist's personal site including discussions of movies, experiments, and data analysis efforts. Messier 81 Internal Motions - http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/m81mn.htm van Maanen's astrometrically determined internal motions of the spiral nebula Messier 81. MSAM/TopHat High Altitude Scientific Balloons - http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/ A series of scientic experiments flying as balloon payloads in Texas and Antarctica, designed to measure the medium-scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). Mysteries of Deep Space - History of the Universe Timeline - http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/index.html From PBS Online Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial - http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm An illustrated introductory guide to the topic, attempting to summarize modern discoveries on the origin, current state, and future of our Universe. NOVA - Runaway Universe - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/ Examines the size, future and fate of the universe as well as the possible existence of others. Also explores what happens in a supernova explosion, a map of the universe on a cosmological scale, and the ability to spin a spiral galaxy on two axes using QuickTime VR. Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday - http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302506 Phantom energy, with negative sum of pressure and energy density, could lead to the universe tearing itself apart in a "Big Rip". Planck Satellite - http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=PLANCK ESA mission designed to find the three cosmological parameters: the Hubble parameter, the density and the deceleration parameter from variations in the cosmic background radiation. Review of Mistake of Einstein - http://focus.aps.org/v4/st6.html Cosmologists have used recent data to constrain the type of 'dark energy' that may fill all of space. Revved-Up Universe - http://sciencenews.org/20000212/bob9.asp Astronomers are convinced that the expansion of the Universe accelerates. Sloan Digital Sky Survey - http://www.sdss.org/ A dedicated 2.5 meter telescope which uses sensitive electronic light detectors to systematically map a quarter of the sky, building a catalog of celestial objects, galaxies, and quasars. Structure and Evolution of the Universe - http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/home.html NASA's quest to explain the structure of the Universe and forecast our cosmic destiny, explore cycles of matter and energy and to examine the ultimate limits of gravity and energy. Supernova Cosmology Project - http://panisse.lbl.gov/ This Berkeley labs site is based on observation of red shift in stars going supernova. The Big Bang (One More Time) - http://csmonitor.com/2002/0509/p11s01-stss.html A new model of the universe says it repeats itself in an endless cycle. Article from Christian Science Monitor. The Boomerang Project - http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/boomerang/ Cosmic microwave background mapping project. Press releases and downloadable academic papers. The Cosmic Microwave Background - http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/cmb.html Extensive CMB information from the University of British Columbia. The Origin of Elements - http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1978/penzias-lecture.html Arno Allan Penzias Nobel Lecture. Tufts Institute of Cosmology - http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/xbook.html The Cosmology group at Tufts University with links to other cosmology sites Turning On the Universe - http://focus.aps.org/v5/st8.html Astronomers say the Universe's expansion has been accelerating recently. A new model for repulsive 'dark energy' may help explain the acceleration in a more natural way than other models. From Physical Review Focus. WMAP- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe - http://map.gsfc.nas.gov WMAP is a NASA Explorer mission measuring the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky. This map provides answers to fundamental questions about the origins and fate of our universe.

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