For those of you not on Facebook at the moment, a little something I wrote as an extension of yesterday's post. Biting my nails and waiting for 2 AM. About to get dressed and drive off to the lab for this viewing party we're having ( Read more... )

I don't have a lot of time to write as detailed an entry as I would like at the moment, but I thought I'd at least excerpt part of a letter I wrote a friend earlier today, mentioning what's going on in high energy physics this week ( Read more... )

This is a plot I made at work this morning. It shows the pitch and roll positions of certain magnets in the Tevatron during the time period around last night's 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan.


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The launch of space shuttle Discovery, STS-133, is delayed by a day at least, so I cancelled my flight tomorrow and am going to fly out sometime (hedging my bets and waiting to buy an outbound flight in case it's announced that it's delayed more) Monday.

Managed to sell my second ticket (for what it cost me + shipping; I'm not as greedy as these ( Read more... )

Somehow, a discussion at work yesterday turned to astronauts and the Space Shuttle program. I remembered that the program is retiring soon, of course, but didn't know when, and immediately looked up when the last flights would be.

It looks like the next-to-last flight (and the last for Discovery) is scheduled for November 1st of this year, and ( Read more... )

I've been so busy and distracted lately that I haven't had a chance to say
WHOO LHC!!!

They got it up and running! Data forthcoming!!!


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