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02/01/05

Hot relationships

The growing relationship of astrophysics and particle physics is a hot topic these days. In addition to the appearance of new faces and institutions at the labs, the growth of this area of research can actually be seen in the references of particle physics papers.

02/01/05

SLAC race

The near-perfect weather in California inspires many SLAC employees to enjoy jogging and walking at lunch time. The long, straight stretch beside the world's longest building, the klystron gallery of the two-mile Stanford Linear Accelerator, seems to compel exercise.

02/01/05

Einstein vs. Godzilla: The Green Guy Wins

So who's this Einstein guy I keep hearing about? He writes these five papers a hundred years ago, and now the whole world wants a year to glorify him? Booshwah, I say.

02/01/05

Reviewed: Debunked!

I know you pretty well: Sometimes you are extroverted, affable and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, cautious and reserved.

02/01/05

Night shift

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a crew of four to five operators plus a crew chief are on shift in Fermilab's Main Control Room, monitoring the accelerator complex.

Image of the yellow and blue E=mc2 balls
02/01/05

E=mc2

Your car, and virtually all other activity on Earth, is ultimately powered by Einstein’s most famous equation.

02/01/05

Allan Weisbecker: A dilettante at SLAC

It'’s my first day visiting SLAC—I’'m researching a movie script wherein the main character is a physicist—and I’'m riding the Stanford shuttle bus to meet some physicists. There'’s one other passenger, a studious-looking fellow with a briefcase.

02/01/05

Quantum Diaries

Quantum Diaries follows the lives of scientists from around the world as they live the World Year of Physics 2005. In their own words, in photos, blogs and videos, they tell the real-life stories of real physicists in real time.

02/01/05

Beyond the Standard Model

At almost any particle physics conference, meeting, or lunch table, the phrase “"physics beyond the Standard Model" is heard over and over again. What’'s wrong with the Standard Model, anyway? Why are physicists so sure that there is something beyond it?

02/01/05

Let it rain

The most energetic particles in the universe have a message for us. The gigantic Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, still under construction in Argentina, is already trying to decipher it.

02/01/05

Opportunities, decisions await Oddone

Pier Oddone, deputy director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will assume the leadership of the largest US particle physics laboratory at a time of great scientific opportunity and important decisions.

02/01/05

John Stachel: Einstein papers

One hundred years ago, Einstein published five papers that led to revolutionary changes in our understanding of the properties of space, time and the microscopic world.

02/01/05

Einstein iconography

I discovered the theory of relativity and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

02/01/05

Event display

Finding new species of particles isn’t as easy as simply watching them fly out of a collider experiment.