Collider Day

[poliphilo]

We've just bought a couple of daylight bulbs for the living room. This is all part of our multi-pronged strategy for beating the recession and making this winter a happy experience. It may be glooming outside, but inside it'll be as bright as May Day and we won't get SAD.

We've also invested in fleeces. Mine has little skull and crossbones all over it.

I understand the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on. This is probably the most important event of the 21st century thus far. I don't think we've been sucked into an alternate universe, but if we had, would we notice?

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and in Wisconsin...

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

People are talking about it -- apparently lots of University of Wisconsin folks have been involved. Here's a blip from our paper today, with a tidbit I find amusing! (Bucky Badger is our football mascot.)

"...stuck on many surfaces of the grand machine are stickers of a proud Bucky Badger as well as many UW-Madison logos.

They have been left there over the past 15 years of construction by the many UW-Madison researchers and engineers who have played a crucial role in bringing to life a machine most scientists believe will necessitate a rewriting of physics textbooks."

I have to admit, though, that I haven't been following this at ALL. In fact, I hadn't heard of the Large Hadron Collider until you mentioned it!

Oh, and the universe as seen from over here seems the same as always. As you say, though, how would we know? ;-)

Re: and in Wisconsin...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess it's been a truly international project- which is sort of symbolised by it's being situated at the borders of two countries- France and Switzerland.

Which is nice.

My nephew- the physicist- is going to spend time at Cern next year. I can't tell you how proud that makes me feel!