As I said yesterday, there are rumours that the Higgs particle may have already been spotted at the Tevatron thus rendering LHC at CERN a tad redundant, but what is the Higgs anyway? Basically the Higgs particle is the last particle predicted by the Standard Model. The Standard Model being the particle physics theory that …
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Elegantly Dressed Wednesday: John Owers
My entry for Elegantly Dressed Wednesday – John Owers. This dashing fellow is my claim to fame, my cousin once removed is related by marriage to John’s (step?) brother. Front cover of $RANDOM-TRASHY-CELEB-MAG here I come. John was a bit part film actor in several 1940s films, his most significant being Scott of the Antarctic …
Something in the air…
In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …
WTF?
They paid £400,000* for this? It’s graffiti isn’t it? Couldn’t they have given Daniel Halpin (the TOX-03 guy from the tube) a small grant and got him to spray LDN-12 everywhere instead? Just as much of an eyesore, but a damn sight cheaper. * Note: This number may have been pulled from my arse, but …
CatCam
I’ve often wondered just what my cats get up to when they shoot out of the house in the morning heading for parts local, but unknown. I’ve pondered fitting them out with a camera to capture their day, but never done more then ponder it. A chap in America has taken the idea and made …