Neutrino Endpoint

There is something very elegant about the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment.

At the Cosmic Shambles Network.

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Collective Effects

There are interesting developments at the moment on the borders between particle physics and nuclear physics, in the study of hot dense blobs of matter made of quarks and gluons.

A fragment of rainbow over the LHC because why not

A fragment of rainbow over the LHC because why not

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Scientific Exile?

This article in the Guardian describes a situation which is already happening. I have personally been in two recent scientific/training network planning meetings in which UK leadership was ruled out as a possibility (by mutual agreement) as too risky in the circumstances.

I am pleased and proud that our EU collaborators are standing by us as network members though, despite the risk to them from our current political instability. We also did out best for Swiss friends during their difficulties, but as you can see from the article, the impact of isolationist decisions can’t be completely mitigated.

(Not really an article, just another tweet that got out of hand…)

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Being English abroad, 2019

My weekend was mostly spent on the French side of border country, experiencing serial incidents of Englishness.

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On Saturday we went to a lake and swam. There was a French guy who seemed to be staring at me while I changed out of my swimming trunks. I was doing this under a towel, a manoeuvre which feels very English and always makes me think of cheeky Blackpool seaside postcards. (The French have no word for manoeuvre, of course¹.)

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