What passes for money
How many things will pass for money? Investment and disinvestment are both aimed at regulating growth from one sector to another, but at higher benefit-to-cost ratios, such moves will fail. Two impor…
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Pi as art
Incorrigible, indeterminable, the stately constant walks alone: there are none to surmount her prevalence, none in whose company she may sit and chat and sip some tea. Of course, there was e, but e wa…
Justice in Gotham City
History The history of Gotham city is not unlike many American cities’ during British colonial rule. It was founded in 1635 by a Norwegian mercenary and was later taken over by the British, changing…
Risky transfers
This update is 6 days old, but it hasn't made any more sense with time. Perhaps it was the way it was written - my opinion: the stress on the financial benefits of offsetting local plutonium stora…
Signs of a slowdown
The way ahead for particle physics seems dully lit after CERN's fourth-of-July firecracker. The Higgs announcement got everyone in the physics community excited - and spurred a frenzied submission…
Making money
An experimental "democratic" revenue model for news publications new to the internet (that are reluctant to change their delivery styles)…
A dilemma of the auto-didact
If publishers could never imagine that there are people who could teach themselves particle physics, why conceive cheaper preliminary textbooks and ridiculously expensive advanced textbooks? Learning…
The Indian Bose in the universal boson
Read this article. Do you think Indians are harping too much about the lack of mention of Satyendra Nath Bose's name in the media coverage of the CERN announcement last week? The articles in Hind…
Ramblings on partons
When matter and anti-matter meet, they annihilate each other in a "flash" of energy. Usually, this release of energy is in the form of high-energy photons, or gamma rays, which are then dete…
A simple overview of particle physics
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Putting particle physics research to work
In the whole gamut of comments regarding the Higgs boson, there is a depressingly large number decrying the efforts of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Why? Because a lot of people think the Large Ha…
Gunning for the goddamned: ATLAS results explained
Here are some of the photos from the CERN webcast yesterday (July 4, Wednesday), with an adjoining explanation of the data presented in each one and what it signifies. This first image shows the data…