Archive for September, 2008

The LHC

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Maybe it’s my unusual (for a non-physicist) love of physics that fuels it … but something about the idea of colliding protons at 14 TeV and lead ions in the PeV range is just …. freaking awesome!
I’m usually pretty mellow, but the more I read about the LHC the more pumped up I get about [...]

My insatiable thirst

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I think that everyone has something they can’t get enough of, to whatever end that leads. For some of us, that’s destructive impulses like alcohol or binge eating. For others it’s less destructive stuff like entertainment, or even potentially constructive stuff like exercise.
My theory, though, is that everyone has something they’re like that [...]