A discussion on the future of particle physics is underway. When is it not, you might ask? And it is a good question, there is always something like this going on (hence the “part 94” in the title, which is a bit of a Private Eye in-joke). But this is a moment when the intensity of the discussion is rising.
An ATLAS paper I’m closely involved in was published last week, and is the subject of an official ATLAS physics briefing.
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 the ATLAS experiment at an impressive “Instant Expert” event organised by New Scientist. Quite a lot of people had decided that learning about particle physics was a good way to spend a Saturday and of course I agree. It was a very engaging audience, lots of fun.
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