Category Archives: Rambling

Keep calm, carry on, but don’t keep quiet

Posted on 04/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 4.1 of Smashing Physics. I have been dealing with cuts in science since 2007. It can be draining and depressing, but I have learned at least two important lessons. The HERA collider started up for the first … Continue reading →

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Health and Safety in Particle Physics II

Posted on 29/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

After Lily’s post on poor risk assessment in particle physics, I thought I should bring to your attention the risk of putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – as discussed by Ed Copeland and his colleagues at … Continue reading →

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Black holes and falling objects

Posted on 29/09/2010 by lilyasquith

I was driving into Argonne with a colleague yesterday morning and he was telling me about the experiment (E687) that he worked on when he was a graduate student. It caught fire and burnt down. The reason for the fire … Continue reading →

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Physique? C’est tout le Français à moi

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Herbi Dreiner

In Bonn, we have been putting on a physics show for kids aged 10 and older for 8 years. It is a show full of exciting live experiments. The shows have typically covered most of classical physics and are supposed … Continue reading →

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