Comments on: LHC Coverage http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: me http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-115440 me Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:24:20 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-115440 Lol. You should see the size of Atlas... CMS is amazingly compact in comparison.... Lol. You should see the size of Atlas… CMS is amazingly compact in comparison….

]]> By: Exploring QCD in Cambridge - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-73148 Exploring QCD in Cambridge - Asymptotia Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:00:17 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-73148 [...] So the conference here at the Newton Institute in Cambridge is simply marvellous. I’m so glad I came, and so happy that I was invited to attend and make a contribution to it by giving a talk and having discussions. It’s a rather splendid combination of experimentalists, phenomenologists, and various hardcore theorists of various sorts, and there are ideas just flying around and bouncing off the walls. The title is “Exploring QCD: Deconfinement, Extreme Environments and Holography”, (it’s organized by Nick Evans, Simon Hands, and Mike Teper) and the focus is very much the fascinating nuclear physics of heavy ion collisions at the RHIC experiment at Brookhaven, and the experiments to come on heavy ion collisions at the LHC at CERN. The latter is an aspect of the physics to be done at the LHC that you don’t hear about much because it is sidestepped in favour of discussions about the Higgs, origin of mass, supersymmetry, theories of everything - such as strings, microscopic black holes, extra dimensions and all that other stuff. (See earlier discussions here, here and here.) [...] [...] So the conference here at the Newton Institute in Cambridge is simply marvellous. I’m so glad I came, and so happy that I was invited to attend and make a contribution to it by giving a talk and having discussions. It’s a rather splendid combination of experimentalists, phenomenologists, and various hardcore theorists of various sorts, and there are ideas just flying around and bouncing off the walls. The title is “Exploring QCD: Deconfinement, Extreme Environments and Holography”, (it’s organized by Nick Evans, Simon Hands, and Mike Teper) and the focus is very much the fascinating nuclear physics of heavy ion collisions at the RHIC experiment at Brookhaven, and the experiments to come on heavy ion collisions at the LHC at CERN. The latter is an aspect of the physics to be done at the LHC that you don’t hear about much because it is sidestepped in favour of discussions about the Higgs, origin of mass, supersymmetry, theories of everything - such as strings, microscopic black holes, extra dimensions and all that other stuff. (See earlier discussions here, here and here.) [...]

]]> By: Hunting the Higgs is not a (D)Zero Sum Game - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-51223 Hunting the Higgs is not a (D)Zero Sum Game - Asymptotia Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:25:00 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-51223 [...] Writing in Slate magazine, James Owen Weatherall seems more than a little confused about how particle physics works. Based on a rumour that there’s a new and significant signal seen at the DZero detector at the Tevatron at Fermilab (Illinois), one of the article’s titles is “Why the rumored discovery of the Higgs Boson is bad news for particle physics”. Supposedly, the big new machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC - see more about it here, and what physicists are hoping for from it), about to switch on later this year, would have nothing to do, and would be a waste of billions of dollars. You can read about the original rumour here. (Above right: A random collision event I grabbed from the DZero experiment.) [...] [...] Writing in Slate magazine, James Owen Weatherall seems more than a little confused about how particle physics works. Based on a rumour that there’s a new and significant signal seen at the DZero detector at the Tevatron at Fermilab (Illinois), one of the article’s titles is “Why the rumored discovery of the Higgs Boson is bad news for particle physics”. Supposedly, the big new machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC - see more about it here, and what physicists are hoping for from it), about to switch on later this year, would have nothing to do, and would be a waste of billions of dollars. You can read about the original rumour here. (Above right: A random collision event I grabbed from the DZero experiment.) [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-46029 Clifford Fri, 18 May 2007 01:22:29 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-46029 Ha Ha! I'd not thought of that before.... Yes that *is* ironic, isn't it? -cvj Ha Ha! I’d not thought of that before…. Yes that *is* ironic, isn’t it?

-cvj

]]> By: Peter Hornby http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-46018 Peter Hornby Thu, 17 May 2007 23:58:39 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-46018 To hijack Douglas Adams - "That must be a usage of the word 'compact' with which I was previously unfamiliar". Nice. To hijack Douglas Adams - “That must be a usage of the word ‘compact’ with which I was previously unfamiliar”.

Nice.

]]> By: Yvette http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-45898 Yvette Thu, 17 May 2007 11:35:13 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/15/lhc-coverage/#comment-45898 Confession: my first reaction after looking at that picture was to think "oooooh, <i>shiny!!!</i>" I swear I'm interested in astronomy and physics for reasons beyond my apparent magpie gene- really! :) (Oh and I rather liked the NYT article, lest I be completely off topic.) Confession: my first reaction after looking at that picture was to think “oooooh, shiny!!!”

I swear I’m interested in astronomy and physics for reasons beyond my apparent magpie gene- really! :)

(Oh and I rather liked the NYT article, lest I be completely off topic.)

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