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10/01/05

Jan-Henrik Andersen: Visual language

Few facets of nature are more mysterious than the quantum world. Particles that appear and disappear from nothing, interactions governed by probability, and intrinsic uncertainties are enough to baffle even the most experienced scientist.

10/01/05

Kathleen O'Reilly: Meet Mickey

Could a romance heroine cut it as an astrophysicist? That was the question I had to answer two years ago when I started working on my romance novel, It Should Happen To You.

10/01/05

CP violation

CP is violated if there is a difference between the ways nature treats matter and antimatter.

10/01/05

War and peace

Public participation is a critical issue for planners of the proposed International Linear Collider. The recent Snowmass conference included a daylong session titled, "Workshop on Public Participation in the ILC," sponsored by the US Linear Collider Communication Committee.

10/01/05

More of the universe

After darkness sets in each night, a wall of TV monitors in the control room of Apache Point Observatory continually displays the telescope's view of the heavens.

10/01/05

Asymmetric insight

Like climbers assessing a new route before making the ascent, physicists have been looking for footholds on a vertiginous new terrain. These footholds contain important information for trekking to TeV heights (the lofty trillion electron volts energy scales of future colliders).

10/01/05

Snowmass 2005: Toward an International Linear Collider

Nearly 700 physicists from around the world met in Snowmass, Colorado, to advance plans to create an International Linear Collider, a next generation machine that would answer the most fundamental questions about the universe.

10/01/05

SLAC Summer Institute: Relativity contest

This year, the SLAC Summer Institute, a two-week-long series of physics lectures for young scientists, focused on gravity and Einstein's theories of relativity.

10/01/05

Weird

The universe is weird. With only 5 percent of the universe in our sight, potential new families of particles, possible extra dimensions, and mass created by an all-pervasive, invisible field, our understanding almost looks feeble.

Logbook: September 2005
09/01/05

J/Ψ particle

Burton Richter’s group double-checked what they thought was a minor statistical inconsistency in their data. Using the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring (SPEAR), they probed electron-positron collision energies around 3.1 GeV.

09/01/05

Remote readers

I am lecturer in physics in a remote area of Pakistan where Internet facilities are hardly found. Fortunately, once I was browsing the Web to find out physics material when I came across your site.

09/01/05

African particle physics

I am a science student from Nigeria and would like to commend Fermilab/SLAC for relentless effort in keeping thousands around the world acquainted with the latest developments in the world of particle physics.

09/01/05

KEK’s activities

On page 18 of the June/July issue in the story “No Little Plans”, you state “With California’s SLAC, Japan’s KEK and Germany’s DESY laboratories making the transition from particle physics to light-source-based research…”

09/01/05

Spilled milk

Almost in time with the rhythmic open-mouthed chewing and the occasional call for more ketchup during lunchtime at Fermilab's day care center comes the repeated mantra, "Careful of your milk."

09/01/05

Car retirement

Louis Barrett, physicist at Western Washington University, drives a lot. His daily commute to the university, located in Bellingham, Washington, is more than 80 miles.