Archive for the ‘Particle Physics’ Category
Neutrinos they are very small
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 11, 2009
I posted about neutrinos recently, but didn’t do them justice (John Updike’s poem excepted).
So I’m taking a second stab at it. I usually include (what I consider to be) interesting tit-bits at the end of the relevant chapter in the Student Notes, but at five pages this would be too much.
so I’m going with a [...]
What CERN doesn’t want you to know . . .
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 17, 2008
Click on the picture to see what they’re all so worried about.
In case you were wondering:
http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Murray Gell-Mann – why I took Physics
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 22, 2008
Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who ‘discovered’ quarks and took the word from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, thought that Physics at high school was “the dullest course I had ever taken”, and he only applied to study physics at university “to please my father”.
Taken from; When we were kids: how a child becomes a scientist.
I [...]
My tip for the Leaving Cert Physics paper
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 13, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN will be the world’s largest particle accelerator when its construction is completed sometime this Summer. It’s a pretty big deal if you are a particle physicist, and even if not you are still likely to be bombarded with the news when it is finally switched on.
‘Tips’ aren’t really [...]
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