Regular readers (hello!) will know that the topics of jet substructure, boosted objects and the annual Boost meeting often feature here, because I work on them and they are interesting and important for physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and any high energy machine which may follow).
I didn’t join the army.
Just found this review of Atom Land (Most Wanted Particle in the UK) which I thought was worth sharing. See, it’s easy 😎 )
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. Butterworth is a lecture in particle physics at a layman’s level. Butterworth is a physics professor at University College London and a member of the Atlas experiment at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider. He studied Physics at the University of Oxford, gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in particle physics in 1992. His Ph.D. research used the ZEUS particle detector to investigate R-parity violating supersymmetry at the Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg.
Quantum physics, particle physics, and hard science for laymen have been around for some time. In the early 1980s, I read Taking the Quantum Leap by Fred Allan Wolf. I also read Feynman’s autobiographical works on his career and work. Today the there are hundreds of documentaries…
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The paperback edition of A Map of the Invisible is out now, and to help promote it we made a few videos on some of the themes in the book. Here’s the second one:
As many of you will know (pay attention at the back) some theory guy said some exciting stuff at CERN and they have, as usual, suppressed his amazing discovery just like they did with those faster-than-light neutrinos and the fact that the LHC destroyed the world in 2008 and we have all since then been living in a simulation¹ running on Rolf Heuer’s mobile phone (or “handy” as he likes to call it).
Alessandro Strumia’s slides have been deleted and the video suppressed, but luckily for you all I have managed to reconstruct the gist from recordings, first-hand accounts and the skip behind Building 40.
It is very serious and credible because, as he says on Slide 6, it uses “Some statistics, like for Higgs discovery.”
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