The Academy Renamed

It's finally happened! mmxi Academy has been renamed to:

muon Academy

a name that breathes a refreshing hint of physics without being stupidly obvious.

The muon bit

Of course, a muon is a fundamental particle. At the time of it's discovery around the 1930s-40s, the Nobel laurette, Isidor Rabi, made a catty comment about the muon:

"Who ordered that?".

Me-ow. Well, the reason that he said this was because the muon seemed obsolete. It wasn't necessary in any nuclear interactions that they knew about at the time. But right now, the role of the muon has changed a lot. The celebrity particle accelerator, the LHC, has a large involvement with muons. One of it's main detectors is called the compact muon solenoid, which was heavily involved with the discovery of the Higgs boson. This is just a small taste of what the muon involves itself in. It's amusing how much physics has changed, and continues to change. (Entry 10 of the Skull List - Evolution of physics - shoots at these changes.)

At the end of it all...

... times change and people change with them. And as a result, I didn't like the old name, so a I got a muon - it's physics, savvy?