Sunday, 20 October 2013

Into the Doc, the Horror

About a month ago, some typical rainy weather joined me as I set forth on the first day of my physics PhD. It started with the regulars: finding places, meeting people, making passwords, learning how to lift a box... then it really started. Like the blood on the bleeding walls of The Amityville Horror movie, the physics started oozing out. It oozes out thick and fast. The duty of the PhD student is...
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Sunday, 13 October 2013

The Standard Model Standard

The moderately hungover first years were blissfully unaware of what I was about to tell them. For the past month I have been teaching undergraduate classical mechanics and this week I made an announcement. An announcement of the 2013 physics Nobel Prize winners. In an attempt of dramatics, I also told the tale of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, for it was Peter Higgs and François Englert...
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