Remeber Rutherford split the atom ....

London Underground is in talks with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) about the possibility of using the 23km tunnel of the Circle Line to house a new type of particle accelerator similar to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva...

(seriously worth…

There is no spoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7p5xHD0Bhk

hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

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(goodness knows what that will do for the sceptic tank.)

Was that deliberate? Nice.

A sceptic tank is one in which many new life forms must be independently evolving.

I put 'Higgs Boson' in YouTube and this video came up because under the video is the phrase 'Finding Higgs Bosom.' Entropy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHixowXnlU

I could see my house from there.

And they say there's no evidence of a higher level of existence?

Apart from the chance it could elevate you to one?

And talking of physicists...

I have 2 as fairly good friends

The classic scruffy sort who continue to do physics and create general havoc http://bit.ly/d0Ufbn http://bit.ly/cTWvgI

The other sort who use their profound intellect in business. My ex-CEO at a major aviation…

a genuine unpasteurised Roquefort

And they say there's no evidence of a higher level of existence? That was one law change I won't be complaining about any time soon.

The thing stands…

We're starting a cult, although the latest Hitch-hikers book has this one covered, so not original, unfortunately. Anyway, I like the old cheeses.

Paul, I have just the recipe for you: Easter Quark Cake

If you don't have enough subatomic particles in your pantry to make this recipe, you can substitute kwark. Less exciting, I know, but it probably tastes better.

Personally, I find all of mine very handy for holding the universe together.

No, that's the gaffer tape.

I have a gut feeling that Burkhard Heim may yet be proven to be correct. Now that would be very interesting.

Great link thanks.

Fashion, Novelty and Optimality: An application from Physics

So getting dressed in the dark is a sign of superior intellect? Sweet.

Also, I have an urge to make a joke around the phrase "Higg's Bosoms". But I feel that would be an adolescent thing to do.

I resisted and resisted and then you did it for me Russell. Had something in mind like, "I hear Mrs Higgs' Bosons are enough to…

I was once described in Felicity Ferret

...name dropper.

Clearly he is enjoying the charm of strange ports of call.

A dozen lashes with the Schrödinger's cat await him when he finally returns to the good ship Hadron: up, down, top and bottom.…

You say this like it's abad thing. I would sugest that, maybe, some did get dressed in the dark, so what. Perhaps it was more important for them to be there " looking square" rather than miss the event.

Oh, of course. I actively approve of scientists' casual dress codes.…

I find the cake strange and charming.

Ah, but is it Art?

I'll just get my Bosons and leave...

Peter Higgs,

not sure what's happened to Schrodinger's Cat in all this cake debate. Maybe it ate the cake and the hundreds and thousands, then got dressed in black and wasn't there at all.

I'm uncertain, on principle.

as much from the public purse as they can.
Hmmm, second thoughts, I just had a vision of Gerry Brownlee in a thong...

Well, that has put me off any thoughts of cake!

And now we know that colliding silver cachous creates hundreds-and-thousands :-)

But would the tin feel heavy?

but you just 'observed' it (by feeling for the weight) so you've changed the state.

Does the weight of expectation change the state of what is observed or the observation ?

media scrum

It seems fitting that CERN, where the World Wide Web was germinated, should deliver witness to the greatest moment of its history via that same web. That in a quiet house on the far side of the globe, I was able to watch a new era in physics…

What will the Red Cross or Amnesty International do with a whole pile of Higgs' Bosons?

Dunno. Personally, I find all of mine very handy for holding the universe together.

But would the tin feel heavy?

but you just 'observed' it (by feeling for the weight) so you've changed the state.

what state it changed to would maybe depend on how hungry you were – if you wanted cake it would be there. perhaps that's how the cornucopia of old…

Fashion, Novelty and Optimality: An application from Physics
Author(s) Galam, S ; Vignes, A
Imprint 19 Oct 2004. – 24 p.
Subject category: Condensed Matter

Abstract

We apply a physical based model to describe the clothes fashion market. Every time a new outlet appears…

Maybe it is (was) Shrodingers Cake:

Not eaten? Eaten?

Well, clearly, you don't know until you open the cake tin.

But would the tin feel heavy?

...and I presume you mean QCD?

BANG on Duckie. Quark Quark!

I just re-read your post... shall we say it gained a new spin I hadn't noticed previously?

Not eaten? Eaten?

If it fell of the table would it land icing side up?

my Alzheimer's has set in early today – I recently read a post or comment – I think here on PA that outlined the way scientists interact and comment on each other's work.... but can't for the life of me find it. I want to…

What will the Red Cross or Amnesty International do with a whole pile of Higgs' Bosons?

If the whole thing blows up might have to turn the Big Hose On.

...and I presume you mean QCD?

BANG on Duckie. Quark Quark!

the cake is a lie

See, and there's another joke about a game I haven't played that I get.

CERN is right into colour these days

...and I presume you mean QCD?

CERN is right into colour these days and are sucking up with the media with their charm offence in a big way. Things are on the up! They are getting down to it. 2/3rds of everything they make will be going to charity.

What will the Red Cross or Amnesty…

boomdeyada boomdeyada etc

I love this bakery!

some of those on screen appeared to have got dressed in the dark.

They do realise these guys are scientists and engineers, right? Lack of dress sense and 'interesting' hair kind of come with the territory....

Yo, mine was rocking a pinny this morning.

I should add that it was…

sorry... it seemed inevitable

Haha, awesome. And I lol'd when I saw /b/ in there...

and some of those on screen appeared to have got dressed in the dark.

Now Russell. I have a bone to pick. Bloody typical media geek stereotyping the physicists of the world. Some of my best friends I work alongside down here get dressed in the dark everyday! And I…

boomdeyada boomdeyada etc

sorry... it seemed inevitable

Oh, and love the cake

I love physics.

some of those on screen appeared to have got dressed in the dark

It really tickles me that many of my (male) twitter pals following this were tooting about the dress sense (or lack thereof) of the scentists.

They do realise these guys are scientists and engineers, right? Lack of…

the dress sense (or lack thereof) of the scentists.

At least they didn't have headcrabs.

I missed all this from '08 (might not have appreciated it anyway) so here's
Gordon Freeman spotted at CERN
and later
training with the wrecking bar he was susequently sent.

All very internet, indeed.

All your collisions are belong to us.

I'm not sure if there was some sort of expectation that the scentists would be all dressed like something out of the Matrix, or perhaps…

It seems fitting that CERN, where the World Wide Web was germinated, should deliver witness to the greatest moment of its history via that same web.

Which is what I was moved to tweet – quite a surreal feeling