August 2009 issue of symmetry now online

August 19, 2009 | 1:36 pm

We’ve been calling this our Manga issue because it highlights the work of Takuya Uruno, who created a physics Manga series for kids for the Japanese laboratory KEK–featured in our gallery–and also drew us a gorgeous Manga cover.

The new issue also features:

– Youhei Morita on Manga as a learning tool.

– Fermilab’s push to develop superconducting radio-frequency technology, considered crucial for the future of particle physics.

– How physicists at the LHC experiments are using the shutdown to their advantage

– A choreographer translates conversations with CERN physicists into dance

– Building better heart valves, the first in a new series on applications of accelerator technology

– The director of Japan’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe takes tea with the Emperor

– As always, our departments: Signal to Background, highlights from symmetry breaking, a 60-second explanation of Cherenkov light, thoughts on physics, technology and culture from the editor-in-chief, and a logbook from the discovery of the weak neutral current. The mathematical framework that predicted the weak neutral current became known as the Standard Model of particles and their interactions.

Glennda Chui
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