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Experts
It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling, Travel
Tagged ATLAS, brexit, CERN, DESY, Isidore Rabi, Mark Thomson, New Scientist, Oppenheimer, Particle Physics, physics, Robin Ince, Science
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Aspen and the Edge of Atom Land
I’m half way through the second week of my stay at the Aspen Center for Physics, where we have been discussing “Tightening the Gap Between Scattering Amplitudes and Events at the LHC at Higher Orders“. What that somewhat wordy title … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, Aspen, Atom Land, CERN, LHC, video
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South African adventure…
See below from Louie, one of the people who made it happen, and below that for a flavour my extra Cape Town excursion, thank to James Keaveney.
Posted in Particle Physics, Rambling, Travel
Tagged Chacal, CNRS, louie corpe, Ostrich, South Africa
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The importance of measurements
Having been pretty much bedridden with Covid for most of the week, I am now feeling much better. I still have those two lines on the thingy though, so today have added a cricket match to the list of missed … Continue reading