Interactions.org Newsdigest 18 Dec 2013

-- CESAR, CERN's Ancestor To Large Hadron Collider, Was Turned On 50 Years Ago Today --'Rocker' physicist knows his neutrinos -- Collider: a gimmicky look at the LHC -- Viewpoint: Ups and Downs in the Search for Dark Matter -- Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves -- Collapse Of The Universe Could Happen Sooner Than We Thought, Or Not At All -- Listen Up, It's Neutrino Time -- Meet a Higgs boson -- 'God particle' -- detective -- IceCube Project Named Brea...