Recently I found a 1966 account of a brand-new atom smasher. Dr. Gregory A Loew gave a talk to fellow physicists at the International Conference on Instrumentation for High Energy Physics proudly describing his laboratory, which is one of Fermilab's elder sisters.

Take a look at "Report on the Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterAt the bottom of ( Read more... )

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The final store is now circulating in the Tevatron. At breakfast, it was just below 100E30 luminosity units (per square centimeter per second ( Read more... )

Hey! I've been indexed at NooSFere.com!

They've incorporated Solution Non Satisfaisante into their listing of science fiction books. And my article on "Robert A. Cornog, l'ami atomiste" gets a page of its own.

I've visited the site before-- I presume it's punning on Teilhard de Chardin's "noösphere" --because it has a lot of great science ( Read more... )

Q. Is it true you have a book out?

A. Sort of. A book to which I have contributed a chapter has just been published in France.

Q. How many books does that make for you this month?

A. Two.

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Apparently last night's earthquake near Gilberts, Illinois, about 25 miles from Fermilab, quenched the Tevatron. Its magnitude was 3.8 ( Read more... )

Yes indeed, Fritz Goro did take more pictures of Lichtenberg figures in Dr. Arno Brasch's laboratory on his visit during chilly February of 1947; as I mentioned in an earlier posting, they are tagged "Capacitron". This was the name of Brasch's device for generating an electron beam. He was using it to irradiate foods in the hope of killing ( Read more... )

I learned today that CERN's Large Hadron Collider has broken the energy record for particle beams, circulating a beam of protons with 1.18 trillion electron volts (TeV) energy. The previous record, 0.98 TeV, was held by Fermilab's Tevatron collider ( Read more... )

The Symmetry blog reports that a few hours ago, CERN circulated protons around the Large Hadron Collider.

This cheerful news marks a milestone in a long recovery from the accident of 19 September 2008. Congratulations to all those involved. May the journey of commissioning be smooth and speedy.

The Google Life trove documents a thousand encounters between scientists and photographers.

There's an oft-retold story-- it seems to have first seen print with John J. McPhaul in his 1962 book Deadlines and Monkeyshines: the Fabled World of Chicago Journalism (thanks again, Google!) -- about a photographer named Sam. He was assigned to cover a ( Read more... )