Wait just a minute

Wait just a minute
Berkeley Lab physicist Hitoshi Murayama and SLAC physicist Herman Winick have provided audio segments for One-Minute How-To, a Web site that provides 60-second explanations ranging from "How to write a flawless email," to "How to organize a river clean-up," to "How to stop smoking."

Murayama tells "How to Understand the Standard Model" (program #117), which he says is "probably the best theory physicists have come up with describing everything around us and everything in the universe. I would say it's one of the biggest achievements in 20th-century science, because it really describes everything we know about what things are made of, how they are put together, and how they interact with each other."

In "How to Understand X-ray Lasers" (program #113), Winick says: "We have achieved what amounts to a revolution in science because the intensity of X-ray lasers and other X-ray sources are so much greater than the normal X-ray machines that we are familiar with in hospitals and dental offices. And X-rays are a ubiquitous tool in so many branches of research; so the increase in intensity has opened up entirely new scientific areas."

The programs can be downloaded from: www.oneminutehowto.com.
Mike Perricone