{"id":227432,"date":"2025-12-19T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bazinga-physicists-crack-a-big-bang-theory-problem-that-could-help-explain-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:34:38","slug":"bazinga-physicists-crack-a-big-bang-theory-problem-that-could-help-explain-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bazinga-physicists-crack-a-big-bang-theory-problem-that-could-help-explain-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Bazinga! Physicists crack a \u2018Big Bang Theory\u2019 problem that could help explain dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bazinga-physicists-crack-a-big-bang-theory-problem-that-could-help-explain-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America\u2019s most famous fictional physicists couldn\u2019t: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles called axions in fusion reactors.<\/p>\n<p>Particle physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, roommates in the sitcom \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d worked on the problem in three episodes of Season 5, but couldn\u2019t crack it.<\/p>\n<p>Now UC physics Professor Jure Zupan and his theoretical physicist co-authors at the Fermi National Laboratory, MIT and Technion\u2013Israel Institute of Technology think they have one solution in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/JHEP10(2025)215\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of High Energy Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America\u2019s most famous fictional physicists couldn\u2019t: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles called axions in fusion reactors. Particle physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, roommates in the sitcom \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d worked on the problem in three episodes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}