Posts Tagged ‘Particle Physics’
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 [...]
Particle Physics and the LHC: some useful resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 3, 2008
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The Large Hardon Collider is due to be turned on this day next week (Wednesday, 10th of September), so it’s not a bad time to put together some useful resources to show to the troops to give them some idea of what it’s all about. At just under 5 minutes, the Large Hadron Rap isn’t [...]
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 [...]
My tip for the Leaving Cert Physics paper
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 13, 2008
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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 [...]
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