Physics = teh cool

[tamaranth]

Large Hadron Collider rap, performed by science writer Kate McAlpine and some CERN employees who prefer to remain anonymous.

The LHC is to be switched on next week -- Sept 10. The end of the world as we know it? On August 26, 2008, suit was filed against CERN in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg alleging the Large Hadron Collider poses grave risks for the safety of the 27 member states of the European Union and their citizens. The request for an injunction was summarily rejected on the 29th, leaving the case that it violates the right to life still pending.

I feel fine ...

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Thanks - brilliant!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

We all saw it and loved it. It's all accurate too!
A (borrowing woolymonkey's account)

Re: Thanks - brilliant!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Long ago, when I was failing to proofread A's thesis, one of my favourite comprehensible lines was "The Higgs particle has swallowed the Goldstone boson." I used to imagine it as a line in a movie, set, obviously in a mad scientist's laboratory full of caged, furry little particles.
Panic-stricken assistant: "Professor! Come quickly! The Higgs particle has swallowed the Goldstone boson!"
I guess you had to be there...

Re: Thanks - brilliant!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

"The Higgs particle has swallowed the Goldstone boson."
This is now doing bad things in my brain.

Re: Thanks - brilliant!

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

The only other line I remember is the opener: "The universe may be considered as an ideal dust." I kind of like it, though it's a bit of a downer when it goes on to call the solar system "local debris".

Now I think of it, that wasn't the thesis. That was the Part 3 dissertation, which still had whole sentences made entirely of words.

Re: Thanks - brilliant!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Dear A
See what you're missing by not having an account of your very own!
x - T

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

The end of the world as we know it

I was amused by the physicist on Radio 4 a while back (and I can't remember who he was now) saying that if they had got it wrong the only consolation was we'd not know anything about it...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

my understanding is that it'd be pretty much instantaneous, which is actually rather a shame because imagine the blog posts: "A mini black hole just ate my cat! OMG!"