Asimina Arvanitaki's desk on CERN campus.The blackboards contain formulae that Asimina explains "the one on the left (close to the window) is a possible design for a dark matter detector, while the one on the right is a new theory that explains the mass of the higgs, the so called hierarchy problem. Another way to understand the latter is that it is equivalent to the question why is gravity so weak? You can see that gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than anything else, since everytime you lift for example a cup, the forces in your arm overcome the gravitational pull of an entire planet…"

Asimina Arvanitaki’s desk on CERN campus.The blackboards contain formulae that Asimina explains “the one on the left (close to the window) is a possible design for a dark matter detector, while the one on the right is a new theory that explains the mass of the higgs, the so called hierarchy problem.
Another way to understand the latter is that it is equivalent to the question why is gravity so weak? You can see that gravity is many orders of magnitude weaker than anything else, since everytime you lift for example a cup, the forces in your arm overcome the gravitational pull of an entire planet…”

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